Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit

“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 5:3

Think back on all the times you have received something from God. Maybe your salvation experience when you first received Jesus Christ into your heart as Lord and Savior. Maybe your time of seeking for an infilling of the Holy Spirit. Maybe the first time God took you past the Holy Place into the Holy of Holies to encounter His Shekinah Glory. May the Lord illuminate personal experiences in your own walk.

There is usually a common thread in all our victories in the Lord Jesus Christ, and it was we first humbled ourselves. To make Jesus Christ Lord we had to humble ourselves before His throne and accept our need for a savior. Before we received the baptism of Holy Spirit we had to humble ourselves and accept we were empty. Our blessing will always come after we see our spiritual poverty.

Many times we gain a victory in Christ and we begin to settle. We lose our humility, need and desperation for the Lord Jesus Christ. Our pride becomes in our doctrines, churches, denominations and so many things other than the cross of Jesus Christ. We in essence become rich in ourselves leaving the reality of the beatitude, “blessed are the poor in spirit.”

In this Laodicean church age may we all come back to the cross and see our need once again. May we become poor in spirit, humble enough to receive from the Master’s hand as spiritual beggars.

Are you reading this with nothing but tears and brokenness? Yours is the kingdom.