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Written by By TaNoah Morgan, Vine Staff
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Monday, 06 June 2011 00:00 |
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Humility is a key to many open doors, and to the most important door of all -- the one leading to God's heart.
Before Jesus began his ministry, his cousin John had a message: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand -- its coming.
Then Jesus began His ministry describing just who the kingdom opened its doors to. His answer in the beatitudes: every poor, broken, bleeding soul. Every less than. Every bankrupt spirit. Everyone who has nothing to offer.
The kingdom of God is for every person who recognizes their own personal sinful condition and their own personal need for God.
Every living soul, even small children, recognizes having a need, and understands their own sin -- that they are not in every way perfectly pleasing to God. We recognize that we could be better, do better.
And everyone feels some shame for this, some guilt, some degree of helplessness in attempting to please God.
To man, helplessness is a wretched feeling to be despised and a position to avoid at all costs.
But to God, helplessness is a key to the kingdom.
All that God has to offer, is for that soul that recognizes its need for Him. And it is the poverty, the lowliness in spirit that generates the invitation to sit at God’s table. The broken soul has the very key to God's heart.
God is not the figment of imagination of the desperate, but He is the Helper of the helpless.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 5:3
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