Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Matthew 5:3, “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
A sense of need is always at the base of our making progress in the Christian life.
This is a spiritual principle.
To be poor in spirit means that we sense our need for God, realizing that we have absolutely nothing in ourselves.
What often motivates us to spend more time with the Lord is an ever deepening realization of our need of Him.
So our sense of need becomes the factor of our spiritual progress because it causes us to seek Him and spend time with Him.
To be without a sense of need in our Christian life is a sure sign of spiritual decay.
The Lord’s diagnosis of the church in Laodicea in Revelation 3:14-20 reveals that lukewarmness, pride, and self-sufficiency are all directly related to a lack of spending time with the Lord.
He says to the Laodiceans, Revelation 3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”
The Lord was virtually saying to them that they had not opened the door of their hearts to spend time with Him in fellowship.
Yet He is also patiently standing at the door and knocking, seeking to get His believers to find time to dine with Him.
In other words, the Lord’s supreme desire for us is that we would sense the need to have a daily dinner hour, spending time with Him.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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