"His Voice Today"
May 8
🔸️ "Know the way to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven! 🔸️
What is the true meaning of "to be poor in spirit” (Matthew 5:3)? If the people don't know, they would never enter the kingdom of heaven. This is one of the main reason for the countless believers today who are unable to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
What does it mean to be poor in spirit? To illustrate this point, let's consider the example of a man who is economically poor in this world.
A poor beggar has no basic necessities like house, work, or food. He goes house to house and gets food for himself in his vessel. When he finishes eating them, his vessel becomes empty! So he goes to beg the next morning as usual. This is his daily routine life! This is the real meaning of being poor in economy.
Now compare the above example with the spiritually poor. Yes, to be simple in the Spirit is to feel our spiritual need like that beggar every day. Like him, we are powerless to lead the spiritual life every day.....we go to God with great need, not being able to serve Him. The life of spiritual poverty is the very opposite of self-sufficient and self-confident.
The people knew an old way that was headed by Adam, before Jesus. Self-sufficiency and self-confidence had great value in the leadership of this Adam! But the worthiness of the kingdom of heaven is the one who is poor and needy, and not the self-possessed, standing before God. Yes, this is the truth that the Holy Bible branded him "worthy to inherit the whole kingdom of heaven"! Realizing his spiritual inability, he receives the key to the Kingdom of Heaven!
Prayer:
Our Loving Father! We felt that our spiritual life and ministry could only prosper through poverty in “self-strengthening!" Bless us to inherit your kingdom in this way! In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Author:
Brother Zac Poonen
Translated version of the Tamil "Family Meditation Book"
From:-
https://t.me/hisvoicetoday
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