Never Forsaken

"I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread." Psalm 37:25 (NIV)

     How profoundly impacted David must have been to write such a statement. To use the world always, and never brings a certain lasting impression to things. And in all his life he never once saw a righteous man forsaken by God.

     For the average person it would have sufficed for David to pick up his pen at that point and say... I've never seen God forsake the righteous. But he didn't. He kept writing, and what he ended up adding to this particular passage tells you something about how he saw God, and how I believe God wants us to see Him.

     In David's day a person who was poor lacked bread. Bread was a sign of provision, and sustenance, and those who had neither were relegated to beg for bread. Jesus said in John 6:35, "I am the bread of life," by making such a declaration Jesus made himself our provision and sustenance for life. That's why David was able to make a prophetic declaration that the righteous will never be forsaken, and their children won't beg for bread, because Jesus was going to fulfill every need for our life. Hold fast to this life changing truth.