Does one truth of scripture
ask us to be poor?
“Blessed are the poor in
spirit…” [Mt. 5: 3]
To
define “poor” in America becomes a real challenge since we have a very strong
middle class economically. The Bible days seem to have mostly rich and poor. Many
more just struggled to make the basics, like food and good water, through the
day. Maybe so today?
However,
Jesus used the word poor and people’s ears perked up. . .but then He added “in
spirit.”
Being
poor in spirit means a condition of surrendering the survival-self
to something
or someone greater than survival. Some think that is family or money or some
tangible. Not so.
Jesus
meant to surrender a false self for the truer self that is found and
established in submitting all to Christ.
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