All sinners are spiritual beggars without a penny of merit or goodness to their name. We are all flat broke when it comes to real righteousness. A beggar is short of money, and a sinner is short of merit. Only the Holy Spirit can make us realize our sad plight and spiritual poverty within. Penniless wretches that cannot earn a cent on their own. We are like weeds on the roadside that grow tall and only cumber the ground. Weeds grow tallest and easiest in the dirt of this world. Sins are like foul weeds that suck the life out of your Soul.
Sinners know nothing, are good for nothing, shiftless, useless, hopeless and helpless. They have no merit and it is impossible for them to earn a bit of merit. They try to establish their own righteousness, weary themselves in vain, but not a bit of righteousness can they earn. Sinners can never attain eternal life by any deeds of their own. You may watch your morals, change your habits, be careful in your speech, but you are not a step closer to being born again for all your efforts. If you are ever to be born again, the Holy Spirit must intervene on your behalf. Only Jesus' Blood has the Power to rescue you from your love to sin and from the enslavement to your sins.
Your sins have made you bankrupt. The money you try to earn by your own works down here is no good at Heaven's bank. The Holy Spirit must open your eyes, bring you to your senses, and show you what you really are deep inside. You must see yourself as you actually are in God's sight. You don't just sin every once in a while; You are nothing more than a walking breathing mass of Sin. You must see God, understand His holiness and justice, and then see your own sinfulness and guilt. How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water. You must trade the filthy water of your iniquities for the Water of Life that flows from The Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
The Holy Spirit must give you a humbling view of yourself, for you will never seek the true Righteousness of Christ, until you are fully conscious of your own unrighteousness. The power of the Holy Spirit must give you Light and show you the gross darkness within yourself. The purity of God must reveal your impurities. Before the Holy Spirit visits your heart, you have need of nothing and boast that you are no worse than other sinners; but when he quickens your conscience and mind, you begin to feel the weight of your sins, and start to understand your wretched, miserable state. No one can help you out of your spiritual poverty but the Lord Jesus Christ: He has unsearchable riches. He became poor, that you may become rich.
Your poverty is far too great for you to cure. You have not one friend here below who can help rescue you from your condition. You have no merit to help yourself, and no moral strength to earn any true merit. You cannot recommend yourself to God, for you are a beggar indeed. The Holy Spirit must cause you to see your sad plight and moral character. You are like the dog that comes into the dining room, and slips under the table, and watches for crumbs that may fall to the floor. But remember, self-condemned wretches are always welcome at the Cross.
Beggars are entirely dependent upon charity. If sinners receive a pardon, it must be simply an act of divine Grace. We can only be reconciled and brought nigh to God by the bloody death of His dear Son. Salvation is an act of God's Charity which we can do nothing to deserve. We must appeal to the goodness, graciousness and mercy of God found only in Christ Jesus. God displayed and commended His love and grace toward us in the person of His bleeding and dying Son. Don't despise the riches of His goodness.
For that reason; ask, seek, knock, be importunate as a beggar knocking at the door of the house where the owner has a great big Heart, and you are welcome, received, fed, and sheltered. Jesus is most hospitable and welcomes beggars every day to come to Him without delay. Your sins are the most urgent reasons for you to come to Christ. Your filthy rags are your best outfit, your emptiness is your only preparation, and your ruin is the reason for coming to Christ. As a poor mendicant, plead for Mercy through His Precious Blood. No Soul ever perished who came to Jesus as a beggar, and neither will you. Jesus is Rich in Mercy.
When the Holy Spirit helps you realize your true sinful condition, you will flee to Jesus. Before a natural man gets a glimpse of his natural state and the ruin which sin has brought upon him, he cleaves to his own righteousness, which the Bible calls filthy rags. We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. You can have Redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the Riches of His Grace. Wake up poor sinner, take advantage of the exceeding Riches of His Grace in His Kindness towards you. Your guilty can be frankly acquitted through the Precious Blood Atonement and justified freely through Christ's Righteousness. Only Blood-Bought Mercy can set you completely free.
Without Christ, every day you are helplessly and hopelessly lost, teetering on the very brink of hell. When you humble yourself and come to Christ as a beggar, you are lifted out of the black quicksand of Sin, washed clean in Jesus' Precious Blood, clothed with the glorious robe of Christ's Righteousness, guarded and protected by Jesus' endless love, fed with manna from above, satisfied with the water of life, and feed upon the flesh and blood of Christ that is filled with divine Life. Also, you are housed, dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, and abiding under the shadow of the Almighty. You become an heir of God and a joint-heir with Christ. You are pardoned, accepted, adopted, regenerated, and eternally secure. You do not eat with the servants, for you have a place set for you at the King's table.
Christ Jesus Himself will raise you up, heal your broken heart, and bind up your wounds. But first, The Holy Spirit must open your eyes to see your state as a beggar, and leads you to look away from yourself to the Lamb of God, and find in Him Unsearchable Riches -- Eternal Salvation and the Forgiveness of sins. Jesus' name and nature is LOVE. Jesus pours out His lovingkindness and tender mercies on us miserable and helpless wretches. He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, set my feet upon the Rock, and established my goings.
Jesus loved you and gave Himself for you. I beseech you to put all your confidence in His Atoning Sacrifice on Calvary's Cross, and then live only to praise His redeeming love. Be wise now, Put your Soul's trust in Jesus alone, for He is the one and only Savior of sinners, and then give Him all the praise and glory. Lord Jesus, you are my only resort, if you do not save me, I am a goner, I must perish in my sins, please save me altogether, for I cannot help myself, I can't give a penny to you. I'm a drowning, sinking man in the quicksand of my sins, I reach out and grasp for You as I sink. please save my Soul for your Mercy's sake!
