Sometimes, one is so poor, weakness is all there is to offer: “O Jesus, this is what I am, nothing but weakness and poverty. This is all I have to give you that’s truly mine. But even this I give you.”
(Psalm 51)
“This is the one whom I approve: the lowly and broken man who trembles at my word.” (Isaiah 66:2)
“On high I dwell, and in holiness, and with the crushed and dejected in spirit.” (Isaiah 57:15)
“the Lord listens to the needy and does not spurn his servants in their chains.” (Psalm 69:34)