God Can Change Our Situation - Holy Land Moments Devotionals | International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

God Can Change Our Situation - Holy Land Moments Devotionals | International Fellowship of Christians and Jews: God Can Change Our Situation Yael Eckstein  |  August 15, 2021 It is God who judges:     He brings one down, he exalts another. — Psalm 75:7 In honor of my father, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, and his lifework helping Christians understand the Jewish roots of their faith, I offer you one of his devotional teachings from the beloved Psalms. A Jewish folktale is told about a young couple who lived around the 12th century. The couple was newly married and still getting to know each other. The wife knew that her husband had previously been extremely poor to the point where he was a beggar. The husband knew that his wife had been previously married but had been abandoned by her spouse. Now the new husband was an extremely successful businessman, and the two were very happy. The wife had a tradition. Every day she would prepare a feast for lunch, and her husband would close his business to come home and enjoy the meal with his wife. One day, as they had just begun to eat, there was a knock at the door. The husband opened the door to find a beggar pleading for food. The husband, who remembered what it was like to be in such dire circumstances, told the poor man that he could enjoy the ent

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