As you think about King David in the Bible—growing up in the household of Jesse, being chosen at a young age to be the next king of Israel, being close friends with the king’s son, becoming king and living in the king’s house—it is unlikely that you have ever pictured him as “poor and needy.” And yet, that is exactly how he describes himself in Psalm 70:5.
We hear “poor and needy,” and we immediately think materially, but that is not likely the case for David in this text. David was facing great opposition and was crying out to God to deliver him. David was not a panhandler with a cardboard sign on the streets, but he was “poor and needy” for God, desperately calling upon God to “make haste” to “help” him.
Are you “poor and needy” for God? Some Christians are living rather contented lives when it comes to God. They need Him when they need Him, but most of the time they’re good on their own. Let us not wait until we are facing opposition to realize how much we need God!