The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 146:5-6,
“Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— the Lord, who remains faithful forever.”
From my perspective there are those in life who have strengths others of us may not have. Certainly athletes who prepare themselves and condition their bodies for things like the Olympic games, etc. have great strength. But as we all know strength is viewed from a number of perspectives. There are those who have strengths in technical areas, as engineers, scientists, doctors and so forth. There are those who have “strong” personalities, who are anything but “thin skinned”, resilient and not pushed in any direction by those around them. There is also strength of character, morally upstanding people with resolute control over the temptations many of the rest of us struggle with.
Which brings me to folks like me – the rest of us who seem to struggle with various weaknesses and recognize a need for help, a need for strength, a need for someone in our lives to help us in this life. I think that is what the major big idea of the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus gave is all about. We have great need. Simple lust in the heart or anger toward someone else betrays I have weaknesses. I suspect all do.
For folks like me, the psalmist points us in a direction. It is away from mortal men who cannot save. He tells us “Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose help is in the Lord his God”, verse 5. It is he who remains faithful forever! And look at who it is the Lord has on his heart: the oppressed (verse 7), the hungry (verse 7), prisoners (verse 7), the blind (verse 8), those who are “bowed down” – struggling (verse 8), the alien (verse 9), the fatherless and the widow (verse 9).
Where this world seeks out the strong, the beautiful, the glamorous, the “cream of the crop”, the heart of our wonderful God seeks out those who struggle, who are at times desperate, the hurting and the needy. Such is the wonderful heart of our Creator God! What a heart this is!
Here is what is so wonderful about our Lord. He has always, in faithfulness, proven himself to have our very best in his heart in his own righteous way! All he has ever done proves just that!
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