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Blessed are the poor in spirit, For for theirs is kingdom of heaven.
In Matthew 5:3, Jesus told his disciples "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. What a profound declaration by Jesus that when a person is poor in spirit, his is the kingdom of heaven. By mere reading the verse (same with other verses in the Beatitudes), we will find obvious contradictions between our normative way of seeing things against what Jesus declared as "blessed". How can be one being "poor" be considered "blessed"? Deeper study and reflection on the verse revealed that as we acknowledged or realized our need for a savior, the more we crave and long for His presence and the more dependent we become on Him. In this sense, we become poor. As we mature in faith, our perspective should change to a deeper dependency on Jesus, a change from our own self-reliance to reliance from above.
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