Psalms 22:9-10

Psalms 22:9-10. But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

We could not help ourselves then; at the moment of our birth, everything depended upon God; so it does in the moment of our death. It is well to remember those years of helpless infancy, when we could not feed ourselves. We were taken care of then, when we hung in absolute impotence upon our mother’s breast, then surely, if a second childhood should come, if all our powers should fail us, and we should be once more as weak as we were at our birth, he that helped us in the beginning will help us in the end. Thus the Saviour comforted himself as he went on praying: -