Poor in the Spirit

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*~" TO BE POOR IN THE SPIRIT "~* Matthews 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” After reading this, you may be left wondering, “What does it mean to be poor in the spirit? * So what does it mean to be poor in the spirit? To be poor in the spirit means that we're emptied and unloaded in our spirit. We're made of three parts -- a spirit, a soul, and a body---and our deepest part is our spirit. To be "poor in the spirit" is to be emptied and unloaded in this part. This means that our spirit is emptied and unloaded before God because our spirit is the part that's most closely related to Him. To be poor in spirit means that, instead of thinking we know a lot or that we have all the answers, we think, "Lord, I need to see and know more. I need You to show me more of what’s on Your heart and more of what's in Your Word." The problem is this: Quite often we think we know so much. Whether we're a high school student or a theological grad student, we think we already understand the Bible and we already know what God's eternal purpose is --- but what if we don't? We need to be humble to realized that there is so much about God for us to understand. Our God is an infinite, measureless God. He created the Heavens and the Earth through the words that He Spoke. All things came into being through Him, and He's ever-existing and eternally unchanging. He's the uncreated, invisible, eternally wise God. As such a God, how can we fully grasp everything about Him that's conveyed through His Word by the time we're 18, by the time we're 55, or by the time we're even older? There's so much of God to learn about and to lay hold of. Actually, we can spend the rest of our lives getting to know God, and we still won't exhaust what we can learn about who He is and what His eternal purpose is. We will never exhaust the limitless God. So instead of

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