Spiritual Bankruptcy
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.”
MATTHEW 5:3
This spiritual poverty is the result of recognizing that apart from Him
we can do nothing. It is a willingness to be broken and reduced to
spiritual bankruptcy, which implies not only losing everything we once
enjoyed, but also making a fresh start with a clean slate and all our
debts erased. It is the Second Universal Spiritual Principle, which
states: “I must decrease” (John 3:30). This decreasing, or as I like to
say, this reducing to Christ, is the first requirement.
If we are unwilling to be emptied then we cannot have the riches
of the Kingdom of Heaven. We will be like the Laodicean church, who said
they were “rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing” yet
in God’s sight they were poor, blind, naked, and miserable (Revelation
3:17). So the Kingdom belongs to those who readily admit right from the
beginning that “a man can receive nothing unless it has been given to
him from heaven ” (John 3:27).
Source: Embrace the Cross by Chip Brogden
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