He Filleth the Hungry With Good Things

IN Luke 2:47-54, we see it is "the mighty" that God puts down, "the rich" that He sends empty away, and "the proud" He scatters in the imagination of their hearts; but He does "great things" for the lowly—those who feel themselves to be of "low estate"—and filleth "the hungry" with good things. Oh then to be viler in our own eyes, meaner and weaker in our own sight, that His might and His goodness and blessing may be more with us. It was when Jacob felt. his thorough helplessness that he clung to the One who wrestled with him, saying, "I will not let thee go except thou bless me;" and it was when he took his becoming place of vile, confessing his name to be Jacob (the supplanter), that God called his name Israel (Prince), and declared that he had power with God and with man, and had prevailed. (Gen. 32:24-30.)