S(Psalm 12:5) "Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will arise," says the Lord; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."
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This happened before. Exodus 3 describes God seeing and hearing a nation's suffering and His coming to deliver them. He delivered them by sending Moses as His agent. God intervenes directly, and He uses people in His process. This also happened after Jesus' resurrection and the Pentecostal windfall: through the power of the Holy Spirit the church became God's agents for delivering and equipping their fellow brothers and sisters. Then they, too, became valid representatives of the Savior (Acts 4).
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God saves, and He does this through people. That scares and thrills me. No sane person would volunteer to join the ranks of the poor and the oppressed--yet Jesus still does. He enters my darkness so we can walk together into the light, so I can be encouraged in the process of becoming whole. Am willing to obey this call to be with others in their darkness? That's a large part of the blessedness that comes out of being all too familiar with our poverty of spirit (Matthew 5:3).
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Savior, only Your love provides me with a rational basis for such sacrificial care for others. Such raw, pure love would be unthinkable if I weren't secure in the eternal faithfulness of You, the only wise God. The goodness of Your kingdom is the reality of what my idealized version of perfect kings, governments, and societies can only hint at being (1 Timothy 1:7). You exceed my loftiest imaginations.
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