Beggar with Trembling Hand

“We give a beggar an alms tJwicgh he receives it loith a irembli7ig palsied hand; and if he lets it fall, ive let him stoop for it.” So doth the Lord give even to our weak faith, and in his great tenderness permits us afterwards to enjoy what at first we could not grasp. The trembling hand is part of the poor beggar’s distress, and the weakness of our faith is a part of our spiritual poverty; therefore it moves the divine compassion, and is an argument with heavenly pity. As a sin, unbelief grieves the Spirit, but as a weakness, mourned and confessed, it secures his help. “Lord, I believe,” is a confession of faith which loses none of its acceptableness when it is followed by the prayer, “help thou mine unbelief.”