But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Job 16:5 (NIV)
Poor by Cathy Vinson |
"Great multitudes" followed
Jesus (4:25). "His fame" spread, fame as in being given a hearing. Ears were being opened to His word. Into this setting, Jesus teaches His disciples first saying, "Blessed are the poor in spirit." What is He teaching? I may have always felt that in my times being vulnerable constituted poverty in spirit. Actually this vulnerability alone wasn't poverty in spirit as Jesus meant. His poor meant beggarly, intensely bending towards, to ask. It is a picture of a lean, a diagonal as it were towards the One being asked. Worship, too, brings this lean into play. (Pro) "towards," "to kiss" is worship in its simplest essence. In poverty we lean on to ask, in composure and poverty we lean on to kiss. Many of us may consider ourselves poor. Let us be the DEPENDENT poor, those who lean.... |
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"Blessed are the poor in spirit." (Matthew 5:3)
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