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Stephen88 63M
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4/17/2010 8:06 am
Blessed are the pure in heart.
Oh Heavens! David, the great king, the general, the
prophet and the judge says these words!

David, before whom great people, prophets and queens knelt
down!! David, before whom the kings trembled.

But before God, he is needy and poor.

In his prayer to the Lord, Davidsays:
"Bow down Your ear, O' Lord, hear me, for I am poor
and needy."
(Psalm 85).

Although he was greatly praised by the people, he considered
himself poor, needy and poor in spirit before God and miserable
because of his spiritual struggles.

The holy history gives many examples of the poor loved
by God.

Perhaps Abel is one of them. He was poor compared to
his brother Cain, a tyrant and the first murderer on earth.
God defended Abel after his death and convicted his murderer
and subjected him to the first curse to hit one of mankind.
(Gen 4:11).

In the same way, God supported Jacob who was poor
compared to his brother Esau.

Esau said "I will kill my brother Jacob."
(Gen 27:4 1).
The Lord blessed Jacob, became incarnate through his
offspring, and saved him from Esau.

God was with Joseph, whose brothers threw him in a well
and sold him as a slave.

Joseph was accused unjustly by Potiphar's wife.

In spite of his innocence, he was imprisoned.

But God gave him triumph over his brothers, raised his name
very high, made him a father of a Pharaoh, the second man in
the kingdom and offered him two of the twelve tribes of Egypt.

It is God who says " For the oppression of the poor for the
sighing of the needy, Now I will arise. I will set him in the
safety for which he yearns."
(Psalm 11).

If you are poor in spirit God will support you and stand
beside you; but if you are a tyrant who thrashes people soundly
and treats them unjustly without fear, God will stand against
you and give blessings to the poor.

David also was poor, owing to the tyranny of his
Absalom who betrayed him.

Absalom assembled the people about him, then waged war on
his father; but in the end, with God's help, David achieved
victory after he had fled, barefoot, from the face of Absalom
and had been reproached by Shemei, of Gera.

Also, David was poor in regard to Joab, the commander
of the army!

Blessings

Stephen88