are those who have their spiritual act together” or “blessed are the hard workers” or “blessed are the self-sufficient.” No. Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” Jesus is not talking about financial poverty but rather a spiritual poverty—a desperation of soul in which people, deep in their being, see their spiritual condition before God and realize how completely bankrupt they truly are, utterly powerless in and of themselves. This experience of brokenness is not simply an intellectual acknowledgement