Honesty

Honesty with yourself can be the harshest, brutal, and bloody of all wars. But, in the end there will be a peace treaty with your soul. Only when we can be brutally honest about our own failures, hang-ups, and insecurities is when God can give you the fullness of His grace. This morning I was reading through Matthew. Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Poor in spirit is the opposite of self-sufficiency. Jesus was speaking of the deep humility of recognizing one's utter spiritual bankruptcy apart from God. As, Christians, we must be brutally honest with ourselves and realize our lostness and hopelessness apart from divine grace.