Poor in Spirit

Poor in Spirit

To live in the Spirit is to live without seeking your own. To live completely in the Spirit is to be completely free. Then how can I be completely free if I am not utterly poor in spirit? Utter poverty does not lay claim to greatness, not even the least little bit for which it can be honored.

Those who are utterly poor are totally free.

Possessing nothing is to possess all things. 2 Cor. 6:10; John 17:10. He who possesses nothing has nothing to lose, and by the same token this applies to the one who possesses all things. The person who possesses nothing has no honor to seek; he who possesses all things has no need. A poor person does not have to take care of anything, whereas the rich person pierces himself through with many sorrows.

The person who cares about his poverty (of spirit) has still something to lose.

Where else does a person live in the Spirit except it be where poverty and glory, impotence and omnipotence, simplicity and wisdom merge into oneness?

Who has greater strength than the impotent who moves the arm of strength; who is more secure than the poor man who has nothing to lose and who is under the hand of the Almighty; and who possesses more wisdom than the babe to whom God reveals His greatness?

Who can rob a poor man? If you want to take his house, he doesn’t possess one; his honor, he has none either; or his life, he has surrendered it into death; and his new life is Christ, highly exalted above powers and principalities at the Father’s right hand.

Who is more certain of gaining the victory than the poor person who goes into battle? He has nothing to lose. The person who is crushed can only move in the direction of victory, just as the person who sits in the lowest place can be moved in only one direction, namely, higher up.

Oh, blessed poverty, which is the greatest treasure with which God has favored this world!