Blessedness in Affliction
This article expounds on Psalm 41:1 to demonstrate how believers can experience blessedness even amid affliction through trust in God's deliverance. Marcus argues that true blessedness is the state of being a child of God saved by grace, which manifests itself in compassionate consideration toward the poor and afflicted, contrasting this with misguided judgment like that of Job's friends.
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. Psalm 41:1 Every believer ought to expect affliction in this world. But, with the affliction, God will also make a way out. Psalm 41 is about affliction as well as God's deliverance. David begins the Psalm with a reference to him who considers the poor. The poor is someone in a lowly state because of affliction. That affliction might be physical; but it could also be emotional or spiritual. Although the...
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