He hears your cries!This is a beautiful verse, the afflic...

He hears your cries!

This is a beautiful verse, the afflicted are the poor and needy; they are without and as a result they suffer. The verse also reflects the passages used of Christ and how he was seen at the point of the his impending death on the cross…poor, broken, needy, put upon and having nothing to speak of.

The Psalmist goes into this verse saying that the Lord has not rewarded the poor and needy with contempt or disgust…reward is the result of effort and it’s pretty clear in this passage that the Lord doesn’t see the poor and needy as being their of their own accord; they aren’t being rewarded for anything they have done, in fact it’s not who they are but where they are in the moment. God doesn’t see us as poor and needy, God doesn’t look on us in disgust because we are wanting or without…He doesn’t view our current circumstances as our fault or our future.

Instead, the Lord hears our cries for help…that is the amazing truth of this passage (and of our God) - the Holy One that is set apart from us and everything opposite from the poor and needy hears our cries, turns to us and gives us all that we need in life.

He recognizes that our circumstances don’t reflect our reality or our future state…He sees us as we are and responds to us in our reality!