Spiritual poverty'

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"Blessed are the poor in spirit." Matthew 5:5

Spiritual poverty is a miserable feeling of soul-
emptiness before God, an inward sinking sensation 
that there is nothing in our hearts spiritually good, 
nothing which can deliver us from the justly merited 
wrath of God, or save us from the lowest hell. 

To be poor in spirit, then, is to have this wretched 
emptiness of spirit, this nakedness and destitution 
of soul before God.

He who has never thus known what it is to groan 
before the Lord with breaking's forth of heart as a 
needy, naked wretch—he that has never felt his 
miserable destitution and emptiness before the 
eyes of a heart-searching God—has not yet 
experienced what it is to be spiritually poor.