The Spiritual Mendicant

Today, Christ Jesus is looking for poor souls that have no faith-that have no good thing in themselves. All that Christ wants from you, poor sinner, is that you should be empty and come and let HIM fill you with His free grace. A mendicant is one who is given to begging and depends on alms for a living.  Come on to JESUS, just as you are! Bring none of your so-called good works, no preparations, not one thing is needed from you: but do come with all your sins, foolishness, and failures. Come to Jesus for everything your poor soul needs. You must only be very needy, and in want of the Savior. Come and get everything from HIM. Don't bring a penny of your own; for what you think you have will only keep you back from Jesus.

The Holy Spirit must first empty your pockets. Come in all your poverty-a beggar, the king of beggars, come bankrupt and be made rich by Jesus. Be always begging, be always a spiritual mendicant, a needy vagrant, a pleading suppliant at the feet of Jesus. Beggars must not be choosers. Christ gives to the needy and forgives the guilty. Confess that your sins deserve God's eternal wrath. You have not a rag to cover your sin with; you are only fit to be put into hell where all sin belongs. Leave off sinning, get Christ for your Friend; He will never be your Friend while you remain self-righteous and continue to live in and love sin.

The natural man prefers his own foul, filthy lusts to Christ, he prefers mammon to Christ, he prefers cheating to Christ. Men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. The complete and eternal forgiveness of sins is offered to you freely through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Christ Jesus was judged and damned for your sins on your behalf, He literally took your place, so you could escape the wrath of God due to your sins.

Come to Christ Himself, for the person of Christ is the essence of Christianity. To come to Christ is this: confessing your sinfulness, look to Him as your sin-bearer, trust Him with your past, your future, trust HIM with your soul altogether. By a sincere, simple, unmixed faith, really come to Jesus. Let Jesus Christ be first and last with you. Take him to be your Savior altogether. Do not try to be your own Savior in any way. Your very best works are filthy rags. Self-righteousness damns, Christ's Righteousness saves. Drop your self-righteousness, and simply rely on Christ for free forgiveness, let the Savior be your All in All. You cannot improve your old sinful nature; ye must be born again. You need a Substitute and Sacrifice to pay for your sins against God. The enslaving love of your favorite sin keeps you from coming to the Savior. Your finest actions are no good in God's sight. You prefer your way to God's way, and your boasted self-righteousness to God's Righteousness, and the wrath of God abides on you.

Let JESUS completely save you from beginning to end, from top to bottom, in all ways and respects. Come along to the Cross now. The Lord Jesus Christ is ready to receive those that Satan himself throws away. Be willing to do nothing or be nothing to save yourself. You are now called from darkness to light, from sin to purity, from self-righteousness to Christ's Righteousness. Give up your sins, forsake your self-righteousness eternally, cast away your boastings, lay down your weapons of rebellion toward God now. Leave your sinful pleasures and old worldly friends behind, and come to the Savior with your poverty and bankruptcy, become completely and utterly dependent on Christ Himself: “My God will supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Your main business is to trust Christ; to rest on HIM; to depend only on what the Lord Jesus Christ did for you on the Cross of Calvary.