Blessed are those who recognize they are spiritually helpless.
The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
Matthew 5:3
Y ou must understand that your biggest spiritual blessing comes when you are completely broken, empty, worn out, and poor. Until you get to that point, God can’t do anything in your life, because you think that you can do it yourself. You get access to his power when you admit that you’re powerless. As long as you are rich with pride or independence, God won’t be able to do anything for you. When you reach the point where you are spiritually hungry, the kingdom of heaven belongs to you, according to Jesus. When you admit that you can’t do it all by yourself and that you need the Lord, then you have the power of his Spirit within, and when you admit that you aren’t the answer but he is, then you have access to all the power in the universe.
When you insist on doing all the work yourself, when you give and give but refuse to take, and when you insist that your hope lies in something you do or don’t do, that’s pride. But when you humble yourself and let go of any idea that you can fix things or make yourself holy, then you come face-to-face with the one who can make you holy. The only thing that ultimately will make you holy is God himself being shown in your life through your obedience to his will. When you do the will of God, you grow in strength and are fed spiritually. His will is to be your spiritual manna (see Exod. 16:4, 31). And when it is, you too will say, as Jesus himself said, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me” (John 4:34).