Know Your Poverty

As a society, we are collectors of stuff.  If it were true, "the one with the most stuff wins," we are real contenders!  I wonder what measure of stuff keeps us above the poverty level?

God loves it when we are "in poverty."  Actually, God's best friends are those who know just how destitute they really are.  How easy it is to be all puffed up [along with millions of others] thinking we are so good at something or good because of something. That is exactly the opposite of how God wants us to be.  He desires us to have no hidden agendas, no personal motives for service.  Oswald Chambers puts it like this: "God's friendship is with people who know their poverty"  If we really want to be effective and useful servants of Christ, we must empty ourselves.  That's what makes us open and useful for His purposes.  This isn't very popular and certainly not the world's way, but it's very simple ... just know your poverty!