"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" Matthew 5:3
Throughout this trip, our team will be going through the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). Many thanks to Kevin, who put together the study for us! I'm looking forward myself to see how God challenges us and grows us each day as we study His word.
This morning we talked about what it means to truly be 'poor in spirit' - how we are called to humble ourselves before God, realizing that we have nothing of our own to offer, but only what work the Holy Spirit does in and through us. We are to be fully reliant on Him and his strength and power, and only then will we be truly effective. This doesn't mean beating ourselves up about how we're terrible people who never do anything right. We are created in God's image, and therefore have value as His children. But to expect that we are completely independent, self-sufficient people who can handle any challenge on our own strength is to have a very distorted view of who God calls us to be as His children. Loved, absolutely. Strong, confident, and joyful... yes. But confident in Him, and not ourselves - empowered by Him and His Spirit in the midst of and in spite of our brokenness. That's something I continue to be amazed by every day: how God chooses to work in a broken world through broken people, all in the name of restoring things back to how they should be, in right relationship with Him.
to Him be the Glory!
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For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10
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