"Tit For Tat"

"Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble." (Psalms 41:1) Without getting overly into the blame game, we sometimes get what we deserve when it comes to having to suffer through some of our trials. It comes to reason, what goes around comes around, is the reality for some that choose to turn away from having compassion upon others. Maybe you might be someone who really does not care about being cared for, nor do you really worry about what might happen if you were to lose everything and be left homeless and poor; but it could happen to anyone, at any time, because there are no guarantees in this life; except death and taxes, so they say. Okay; instead of getting the negative side, let's focus upon the positive direction of this passage of Scripture; and yes, the title above this Psalm in my Bible is, "A Sick Man's Prayer". The word "considereth" is much like the word "thinketh" from the last verse of Psalms 40; except in the case of the word "thinketh", it is God who is considering our life, therefore He has the power to make all things work for the good; yet here, with this word "considereth", we are to give attention to the situation of someone who might be poor, as someone to whom we might be of service to, as in, is there anything that we can do to help. Another way to look at this, might be to consider what you would want God to do for you, or what He has already done in relation to His mercy, and then use that as the guide for the way you look upon others, especially those that are in need of what you might have to offer. Much like, "do unto others, as you would have them do unto you"; except in this case, we do unto others just as we would like the Lord to do unto us; meaning, we have compassion upon others, because we want the Lord to have compassion upon us. The very first thing that Jesus said when He opened His mouth and taught at the Sermon on the Mount, was, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven". It is really about knowing our place, and the condition of our worthiness for God's acceptance or justification... "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." (Romans 3:21-26)