Today's promise: God helps those who
help the poor
Does God really care
about the poor?
Who else protects the
poor and needy from those who want to rob them?
Psalm 35:10 NLT
As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord is thinking of me right now.
Psalm 40:17 NLT
He will rescue the poor when they cry to him; he will help the oppressed, who
have no one to defend them.
Psalm 72:12 NLT
"I'll just have to go blind"
A man was having a lot
of trouble with his eyes. His doctor examined him and recommended the name of
another doctor he should visit, saying, "I would advise you to go at once
and take plenty of money with you, for it's going to cost a lot."
The man had eighty dollars in the bank, so he got his money and went to see the
other doctor. After examining him, the doctor said, "I never accept less
than five hundred dollars for this particular operation."
"Well, then," said the man, "I guess I'll just have to go blind,
because I have only eighty dollars."
But the good doctor said, "There is one other way to solve our trouble.
You don't have enough to pay the bill, and I can't charge you as little as
eighty dollars, but there is another way open to us — I will do the operation
for nothing." And that is just what he did.
adapted from a story by Kenneth N. Taylor, quoted in 1001 Great Stories and Quotes by R. Kent
Hughes (Tyndale House) p 180
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord is thinking of me right now.
He will rescue the poor when they cry to him; he will help the oppressed, who have no one to defend them.
The man had eighty dollars in the bank, so he got his money and went to see the other doctor. After examining him, the doctor said, "I never accept less than five hundred dollars for this particular operation."
"Well, then," said the man, "I guess I'll just have to go blind, because I have only eighty dollars."
But the good doctor said, "There is one other way to solve our trouble. You don't have enough to pay the bill, and I can't charge you as little as eighty dollars, but there is another way open to us — I will do the operation for nothing." And that is just what he did.
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