Almost everything we have been taught about success runs directly counter to the first Beatitude. We are formed by a world that rewards competence, penalizes vulnerability, and treats need as weakness. We bring these instincts into the spiritual life and produce the same result: a Christianity of performance, a faith in which the strong survive and the broken feel excluded.

Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount with a statement so counterintuitive that it arrests everything that follows: blessed are the poor in spirit. Not the theologically equipped. Not the morally consistent. Not the emotionally stable. The poor in spirit — those who have come to the absolute end of what they can produce, sustain, or offer. And to them, and only them, Jesus assigns present-tense possession of the kingdom: theirs is — not will be — the kingdom of heaven.

This is the daily renewal posture Jesus prescribes. Not as a feeling to manufacture but as a reality to acknowledge. You are poor in spirit. The question is whether you know it yet.

Read more here…Devotional #3 – Poor in Spirit