Been feeling like a loser lately? Maybe you heard an inspiring story of a great achievement and rather than feeling inspired, you felt like a failure in comparison? Or perhaps it’s your old habit that you’ve succumbed to that makes you think you will never have victory over it? Or maybe it’s a comment someone who knows you made that depressed your soul? Perhaps you were told you were special growing up but you are finally realizing that you are not? There is nothing special about you? That you are really no different than anyone else?

The world tells you to get rid of these negative feelings by working on yourself (exercise, acquire a new skill) or buying something (a new gadget, a new car). But God tells us that these are good feelings. The feeling of inadequacy. The broken heartedness. Even self-loathing. As long as they will lead us to depend on Christ for our worth, that is…

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” Psalm 51:17

God will NEVER accept anyone with his head held high believing that he deserves good things from God.
But God will ALWAYS accept someone who knows he doesn’t deserve anything from God and yet approaches Him away like a pauper.

Are there subtle hints in your life in how you complain, in how you treat others – especially those who don’t seem to matter – that display you really deserve better? (“Can’t believe that young girl is making more money than me!?”)

A broken and contrite (humble) heart, God will not despise… Only in this term, can we approach God and be accepted.

PH/