Upholding the Cause

I love verses 5-9 of Psalm 146.  They reveal the heart that God has for his world.  Those verses say:

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord his God,
⁶ the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them—
the Lord, who remains faithful forever.
⁷ He upholds the cause of the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets prisoners free,
⁸ the Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous.
⁹ The Lord watches over the alien
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked. (NIV, 1984)

 

Who's side is the Lord on?  He's on the side of the disenfranchised and the downtrodden.  He works to help those who have been beaten down by corruption and abuse of power.  He helps the alien (apparently legal or otherwise).  If that is what God does, should we do any less?  We need to have the same heart for people that God does, helping the broken and the weary.  It's what Jesus did.  It's what we should do too.