Devotional - The Lord Helps The Powerless “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!” – Job 26:2 In January 2004, police were shocked by what they found inside a house in the small town of Durham, Ontario, Canada. The police responded to complaints from relatives. And when they entered the ramshackle house, they discovered two teenage boys-ages 14 and 15-locked in cages. Their biological aunt had adopted the teens when they were 1 and 2 years old. For over a decade, the boys suffered abuse at the hands of their adoptive parents. Ontario officials learned that the boys did attend school during the day, but they were sent to their cages at night. On weekends and holidays, they often were allowed downstairs for a bowl of cereal in the morning, and then sent back to their cages wearing diapers, where they would spend the rest of the day. The adoptive mother was described to the court as a domineering, controlling woman whose husband was an illiterate and dyslexic handyman, who beat the powerless boys on her command. It was Detective Kate Lang and Constable Tim Maw who released the boys from their makeshift cages. They told the boys that they would never be locked in those cages again. And the teens responded with one word: Really? Our God sees our tears, hears our sobs and draws close to the powerless. Today in prayer, praise Jesus that He is a God of compassion. “The dew of compassion is a tear.” – Lord Byron God’s Word: “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.” – Romans 5:6
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:36:27 +0000
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