Nobody - you, anyone you know, people with great power and abilities (“princes”) - can accomplish on our own the kind of good in the world that God can accomplish. Even if someone has great plans and works hard, when they die their plans pretty much die with them. God’s plans for the world, described in the second part of Psalm 146, include bringing good to all kinds of suffering and oppressed people. God’s plans never die. When we seek and allow God to continue creating through us, we become part of God’s eternal plan to help the oppressed, feed the hungry, care for widows and orphans. God will work through us to build up good places wherever we live to a much greater extent than we ever could on our own. In so doing, we will join the work that began before we were born and will continue after we die.
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