Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, May 19 (3:12)
“I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord” — Zephaniah 3:12.
It is the troubled and distressed who find their relief in God. Ofttimes temporal prosperity proves to be a hindrance to spirituality. It need not be so but we are so constituted that when all goes well in this scene and we have abundance of the good things of life we are apt to forget the Giver and be more occupied with His gifts than with Himself. In our afflictions and needy circumstances, if we turn to Him we learn how marvelously He can satisfy our hearts and lift us above the trials of the way.
—J. Denson Smith.