The Blessing of Spiritual Poverty

First15 Devotional

First15

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A cornerstone to living poor in spirit is living with an acknowledgment of our need for God. We must learn to tap into our weakness and lean on Jesus in all things if we want to experience the blessing of God’s grace. The beauty of God’s way is that it will always turn the ways of our world on its head. To be strong you must become weak. To be rich, you must be poor. To find, you must lose.

Our Scripture for today comes from Isaiah 57:15, and today's worship is

New Wine by Hillsong Worship.

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Today we can all be thankful for the reality that we have everything we truly need in God already. That in our weakness God has provided for us so richly an abundant life in him.

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0:00.0	A cornerstone to living poor in spirit is living with an acknowledgement of our need for God.
0:10.0	We must learn to tap into our weaknesses and lean on Jesus in all things if we want to experience the blessing of God's grace.
0:19.0	The beauty of God's way is that it will always turn the ways of the world
0:23.4	on its head. To be strong, you must become weak. To be rich, you must be poor. To find,
0:30.3	you must lose. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. To be rich in spirit based on our own accomplishments is to bear the weight of our own
0:40.7	spiritual growth.
0:42.1	In comparison, when we acknowledge our spiritual poverty before God, thereby contributing
0:47.4	all that we do and are to his limitless grace, the weight of our spirituality is lifted
0:53.6	off and placed squarely on the
0:55.6	shoulders of Jesus, where it belongs. To be spiritually poor is to be incredibly blessed. I've spent
1:03.3	much of my Christian life seeking to do good. I've gone to church, Bible studies, small groups,
1:09.6	accountability groups, and I've played in worship bands. I've gone on mission, Bible studies, small groups, accountability groups, and I've played in
1:11.8	worship bands. I've gone on mission trips, fed the homeless, served at food pantries, given up
1:17.6	sleep, spent nights out to invest in others, and even dedicated my career to God. But it seems
1:25.0	like with every good work I was doing, I had to continually look to the next.
1:30.3	I couldn't take time to rest or enjoy God because the weight of my righteousness
1:35.3	and the fruit of my life rested solely on my shoulders.
1:39.3	I didn't know how to live by grace, so instead I filled every waking moment with a fight to do all I could on my own.
1:49.5	Now, it's not that any of those works were inherently bad.
1:53.0	In fact, I'm continuing to do most of those things today.
1:57.1	The difference is found in John 15, 5 through 9, where Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
2:04.9	Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit.
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