If you want to truly See, you must look to Jesus with all your heart first thing in the morning and throughout your day. Always Remember to Rest your heavy laden Soul at the foot of the Cross; this is your soul's only true restingplace. You can have your pockets lined with money, hands decked with jewels, wearing the finest clothes, and have a house full of furniture, and still be a miserable wretch inside. You must first seek the kingdom of God and His Righteousness, the Lord Jesus Christ. The reason you must seek the kingdom of God is because you are naturally in the kingdom of Satan and Darkness. And you must seek God's Righteousness, because your righteousness is as filthy rags in God's Sight. You must first understand what it is to have a contrite spirit, or your latter end will be a terrible one. O that you were wise, that you understood this, that you would consider your latter end!
You can have many, many creature comforts outwardly, but no comfort at all in your heart and soul. No comfort in your conscience, because of your past sins; no comfort in your heart, because you are pressed down with guilt and shame. May you find Salvation in JESUS today! Your only Hope is at the Cross, hasten there, anxious Soul; True Peace is only available at the Cross, fly there now, despairing Soul. Only JESUS can cheer the gloominess in your despairing soul today. All your efforts to earn Heaven must end in disappointment. It is a horrible existence each day without the Lord Jesus Christ. You are like an unclean spirit which walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none at all. You can be unspeakably happy by resting in JESUS and looking to Him for grace and mercy. Make it your life's object and passion to know JESUS, seek the Holy Spirit's illumination and His choice fellowship.
The Holy Spirit must convince men of their sins against God. The Holy Spirit will get a man to feel so diseased inside, that He will seek and yield to the Physician; get a man to feel so poor that he will accept the Charity of Heaven; make a man to realize he is clothed in filthy rags and make him no longer feel proud of his filthy rags, but to be willing to cast away his rags and take Christ's robe of Righteousness, which only He provides. Only the Holy Spirit can quicken and thoroughly convince a Soul of his sinfulness and his need for the Savior's forgiveness and mercies.
The contrite in spirit cares about God, he weeps over his sins, and feels his sinfulness. True contrition, sincere repentance, and transparent admission of being lost and in need of the Savior. Without JESUS, life is like walking barefoot on a gravel round headed for a dead end - a wasted life, of all men most miserable. The LORD will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. There is Good News found in the Gospel for the destitute. Spiritual paupers are utterly, thoroughly, terribly destitute. They are penniless, impoverished, indigent, down and out, flat broke, bankrupt, can't make ends meet, without a red cent, on the spiritual breadline. Many people grind out the duties and chores of empty religion without the enjoyment of Salvation in JESUS. They live in dire poverty while infinite Wealth is all around them. They live in bondage and cruel oppression while eternal Freedom is right at hand.
You will never come to Jesus Christ until you feel and realize you cannot truly LIVE without HIM. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal yourself to yourself. You must feel your poverty before you come and BEG at the door of JESUS' Mercy for Help. Jesus hears the groaning of sin's prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to death, and sit in Darkness. He weakens your strength in the way. True Poverty is to live without Christ, die without Christ, and endure all Eternity without Christ.
May the power of the Gospel be brought home to your Soul through the words of God and the mighty working of the Holy Spirit.
