God’s Favor

But I know the LORD will help those they persecute; he will give justice to the poor.
Psalm 140:12, NLT

All the choices we make, can lead us into situations we don’t want to be in. We might decide to go hang with the wrong type of crowd and you end up getting arrested. You might want to sleep in a little bit more and you miss your SAT exam. You could just get smoke once but you end up becoming addicted to the nicotine. Who knows what choices you have made and have placed you in situations where you don’t want to be?

You might be wondering, how can the Lord help me if I am not poor? Let’s analyze what a person of poor status is. The two main things that they lack is money, hence they can’t get any professional help or someone to defend them. But God says he will give justice to the poor, he will be there with you in situations you can’t be protected by others or get the right help. God is always going to be there with you, but we shouldn’t take advantage of this. We should live responsible, because sometimes it may be you who has to protect the powerless.

So God is with me, what does that mean besides that he will protect me? Or what does it mean that he will he protect me? Let’s take the story of Joseph, the youngest brother of twelve siblings. God was always with him, when his brothers threw him in a hole, when he was a servant of Potiphar, when he was in the jail cell, and when he faced the Pharaoh. So how did God protect him, in all situations he was always humble and God found favor in that. And favor is what he gave Joseph. When he was the servant of Potiphar, the Lord was with Joseph, and Potiphar saw this. So he took advantage and placed him in control of his household and all his stocks. When he was sent to jail, after some time he found favor among the guards from the Lord and he was given a job to watch over all the other jail cells. When he first met the Pharaoh he answered what the dreams meant and soon became the second in command of Egypt.
In the world we face, we live daily scenarios that often put us in situations where we think that there is no way out. But the Lord always has a plan, a plan in favor of you.

For you have judged in my favor; from your throne you have judged with fairness.
Psalm 9:4, NLT