Daily Meditation: Our Poverty, God's Dwelling Place
DAILY MEDITATION
Our Poverty, God's Dwelling Place
August 18
Photo courtesy of Jim van Dijk
How can we embrace poverty as a way to God when everyone around us wants to become rich? Poverty has many forms. We have to ask ourselves: "What is my poverty?" Is it lack of money, lack of emotional stability, lack of a loving partner, lack of security, lack of safety, lack of self-confidence? Each human being has a place of poverty. That's the place where God wants to dwell! "How blessed are the poor," Jesus says (Matthew 5:3). This means that our blessing is hidden in our poverty.
We are so inclined to cover up our poverty and ignore it that we often miss the opportunity to discover God, who dwells in it. Let's dare to see our poverty as the land where our treasure is hidden.
For further reflection...
I dwell in the high and holy place, but also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite. - Isaiah 57: 15b (NRSV)
Your response...
Where do you feel impoverished? Invite God to join you there. Comment on this Daily Meditation.
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