"Blessed are the poor in spirit...." Matthew 5:3
It means a complete absence of pride, a complete absence of self-assurance and self-reliance. It means a consciousness that we are nothing in the presence of God. It is nothing, then, that we can produce; it is nothing we can do in ourselves. It is just this tremendous awareness of our utter nothingness as we come face to face with God. That is to be poor in spirit.
Martyn Lloyd Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
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