The Absolute Surity of Belief

THE POOR IN SPIRIT

Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3).
    To be the poor in spirit does not in the least mean the thing we call “poor spirited.”  To be poor in spirit means to have emptied yourself of all desire to exercise personal self-will, and, what is just as important, to have renounced all preconceived notions in the wholehearted search for God. It means to be willing to set aside your present habits of thought, your present views and prejudices, your present way of life if necessary; to jettison, in fact, anything and everything that can stand in the way of your finding God.

Around The Year 

With Emmet Fox

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It is absolute surety that flies planes into tall buildings. Really, when I believe I am right and any and everyone that disagrees is somehow spiritually blind or a political dolt, I am in trouble because I have sunk into a quagmire of righteousness that excludes all real communication. This is especially true when I am seeking a connection with this mysterious Higher Power. To believe I have found what others are unsure of, or still seeking, is to cut of the spirit of love and tolerance. The possibility is that those who are seeking God are closer to God than those who are assured that they have already found God. The Spirit of Compassion allows a great deal of latitude and is able to sense we are all children running about, bashing each other heads in (with our words or deeds), and otherwise causing all kinds of oppressive discrimination and dislocation in order to please a cosmic parent that needs no appeasing. The only sacrifice I can see of God isn’t the blood of goats, sheep or any other sentient being (of which most of us think of as barbaric), but the Heart of Compassion calls for us to abandon such silly notions and get on with the full time job of caring for each other. It really is as simple as that.

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