Daily Excerpt: God Speaks into Darkness (Easterling) - Helping the Helpless
Excerpt from God Speaks into Darkness
Helper of the Helpless
Inspired by Psalm 10
A terrifying new flu-like disease, the coronavirus, is
sweeping the globe. The World Health Organization has declared it a pandemic;
the President declared a national emergency. Nations around the world have
closed their borders, barring public gatherings and shutting down schools and
churches, restaurants, businesses and sports events in a race to save lives.
Doctors and health care workers are risking their lives to
save people. Mortality rates are ten times as high as with other flus. Some
nations are digging trenches for mass graves. The stock markets and people’s
life savings are in free-fall. Legislators are passing emergency relief
measures.
Food pantries and soup kitchens are overwhelmed. Feeding
stations are springing up to feed the masses needing relief, lines of cars
extending for miles as people wait in line. In some countries, people have been
trampled by others driven wild by hunger, trying to grab food for their
desperate families.
Because so many are unemployed, charity donations have
dried up at the very time need is the greatest. Closed schools mean children at
risk are missing vital meals. No cure exists, and no vaccine is yet available
to stop this highly contagious disease.
In times like these, we find
comfort in the Psalms:
“O Lord, the poor person trusts himself to you; you are
known as the helper of the helpless. Some are proud and haughty, acting as if God is
clueless or asleep. They wouldn’t think of looking to him! Yet, they seem to
succeed in all they do, and their enemies fall before them. Lord, they don’t
even see your punishment hanging over them!”
Meanwhile, the helpless are crying out to God. Who else do
they have? Hear them pleading with the eternal judge of heaven and earth:
“Arise, O Lord!
Don’t forget the poor or anyone else in need.”
Yes, dear one, you have a mighty friend in heaven looking
down on you in love. He cares deeply for you and your predicament. You have a
Savior ready to rush to your aid.
The Psalmist concludes:
“Lord, you see the hope of humble people. Surely you
will hear their crying and comfort their hearts. You will befriend the orphans
and all who are oppressed so that proud and godless boasters will terrify them
no more!”
Does this sound like you have a friend in court? Will you
trust in your heavenly Advocate who can save you from all harm, danger, and
evil?
Jesus fulfilled the Psalmist’s vision—he became helper of
the helpless, friend of sinners, and their last resort. Invite him into your
precarious situation. You can entrust yourself wholly to his love.
Jesus said to his friend, Martha, sister of Mary, who was bustling about preparing dinner while Mary was sitting and listening to Jesus and who rebuked Mary for not helping her, “Dear Martha, you’re anxious and troubled about so many things; only one thing is worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it—and I will not take it from her.” (Luke 10:41-4)
Thank you, Lord! When we invite you into our helplessness, we never walk alone.
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