The Third Gift of Christmas - I Shall Not Want
“God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.” Matthew 5:3 NLT
The good news of Christmas is that Jesus has inaugurated the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth when he was born on Christmas day. And it is through the spirit of poverty and the awareness of our total dependence on God’s grace that we can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Greed leads us to the love of money. The fear of poverty keeps us from giving which is the spirit of Christmas. Generosity and gratitude flows from the spirit of poverty which is the evidence of life in the Kingdom of Heaven.
The spirit of poverty is the foundational attitude in the Kingdom of Heaven. Wealth and success can sometimes be our greatest obstacles to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Happiness is not found in the absence of failure but in resting in the promise that we have all we need when Jesus is our Shepherd of Love. And so we pray, “Jesus Is Lord!” to fill us with meekness and the spirit of poverty to counter the sins of lust and greed.
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