I have started a new book by Heidi Baker called Compelled by Love. Heidi and her husband do mission work in Mozambique and she writes many books. This particular book is about the beatitudes and it is rocking my world. I have been so challenged by the first chapter when Heidi shares all that the poor and especially the children have shown her about living poor in spirit. Living poor in spirit has nothing to do with your financial state though the poor really do understand this concept naturally. Being poor in spirit is a matter of receiving just live. The poor live simple lives in community of interdependence and really give the world a picture of what the church of Acts looked like. But most importantly living poor in Spirit is a posturing of the heart where one is wholly given, fully yielded, completely desperate, and totally dependent on God alone. I want live like this- no back up plan- just diving into whatever God calls me into with complete faith. Being poor in spirit is a choice- a decision- we all have to make to go lower still, fully dependent on the One who is always dependable.
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