"Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours." Luke 6:20
In another gospel, we read that Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of God is yours." This is kind of a difficult passage with many interpretations.
I guess it's because we tend to pick and choose what we want to follow. I think Jesus meant that we have to be poor in spirit, dependent on Him, empty of ourselves, before we can have the kingdom and the King come into our lives. We can't fill a bottle which is already full of water or wine.
But I think this is also about being really poor, wanting, needing...when you are poor, you are NOT content with the state of your life, and you are ready to cling to God. Someone like the rich, young man in Matthew 19:16-26 was already perfectly happy with what he had and did not want to give up anything for God.
I hope we will never be content with our lives as it is. No matter how special we are, we should know that we are spiritually poor, bankrupt before the Almighty God. We have absolutely nothing to offer Him aside from our sinful selves. Still He calls us to Himself, worthless as we are. As His children, we are given the riches of heaven, robes of royalty in exchange for rags, beauty for ashes. We are all earthen vessels, cracked pots. The treasure is inside and it is the cracks in us that lets the treasure shine out.
Blessed are we indeed if we see the truth!
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