The long-anticipated Messiah and King had come to Israel, “He that is born King of the Jews.” After His baptism by John, when God had spoken from heaven, declaring that “this is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” and after He was “led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil,” over whom He was completely victorious, “Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The King was at hand, ready to set up His kingdom. Sad to say, “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.” Not until He comes again “shall He sit upon the throne of His glory.” But when He announced that “the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” He also announced, in the Sermon on the Mount, the constitution and principles of the kingdom. One of these principles is: “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” This is always true, in any age, and it is true for us today. “Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” Always, “the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
Humble and contrite before Him
Brings blessing to us always;
He delights when we but trust Him
And rest in Him as He says.
Matt. 2:2; 3:17; 4:1,17; John 1:11; Matt. 25:31; Isa. 57:15; Psa. 34:18.