Thou, O God, hast prepared of Thy goodness for the poor
Psalm 68:10
All God's gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants
foreseen. He anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which He
has treasured up in Christ Jesus, He provides of His goodness for the
poor. You may trust Him for all the necessities that can occur, for
He has infallibly foreknown every one of them. He can say of us in
all conditions, "I knew that thou wouldst be this and that." A man
goes a journey across the desert, and when he has made a day's
advance, and pitched his tent, he discovers that he wants many
comforts and necessaries which he has not brought in his
baggage. "Ah!" says he, "I did not foresee this: if I had this
journey to go again, I should bring these things with me, so
necessary to my comfort." But God has marked with prescient eye all
the requirements of His poor wandering children, and when those needs
occur, supplies are ready. It is goodness which He has prepared for
the poor in heart, goodness and goodness only. "My grace is
sufficient for thee." "As thy days, so shall thy strength be."
Reader, is your heart heavy this evening? God knew it would be;
the comfort which your heart wants is treasured in the sweet
assurance of the text. You are poor and needy, but He has thought
upon you, and has the exact blessing which you require in store for
you. Plead the promise, believe it and obtain its fulfillment. Do you
feel that you never were so consciously vile as you are now? Behold,
the crimson fountain is open still, with all its former efficacy, to
wash your sin away. Never shall you come into such a position that
Christ cannot aid you. No pinch shall ever arrive in your spiritual
affairs in which Jesus Christ shall not be equal to the emergency,
for your history has all been foreknown and provided for in Jesus.
