Who has the power to make you, or to break you?
Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
Psalm 146:3-4
At the end of the day, we are all broken vessels made of clay. Even those people who we see as the strongest are too weak to support the weight of their own soul. Both the slave and the king have come into this world naked and empty handed, and will leave it the same.
Everyone has needs too deep to meet. Everyone is too broken to fix. Jesus is our only exception. He bears the weight of the world on his shoulders, and he can bear the weight of your soul. The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down. (v. 8)
You can’t be broken down more than he can build you up. You can’t be hurt deeper than he can heal you. You can’t be failed greater than he can help you.
Joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
He made heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them.
He keeps every promise forever.
Psalm 146:4-5
Men will not always be who they ought, or do what is good, or follow through with love. But God keeps every promise through it all.