WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT GOD WILL NOT DESPISE A BROKEN SPIRIT AND CONTRITE HEART?

A contrite attitude of mind comes from a person who has come to realize their poverty of spirit, their total incapability to do anything that is pleasing to God of and by their own self will, impossible. Realizing that they are poor in spirit and need God's Spirit indwelling them to accomplish all that He requires of them as His adopted sons/daughters, they indeed come before Him in an attitude of repentance and asking for His forgiveness.

Now, God responds by forgiving that son/daughter because of the sin offering sacrifice of His beloved son Jesus who by his sacrifice, his shed blood has reconciled all mankind unto his God and his Father.

We should also realize that we are bought and paid for by the blood of the lord Jesus and are no longer our own. We are his slaves and as such have no right to act according to our self-will anymore. We now become as Paul says slaves of righteousness - right doing in faithful obedience to the will of God and His son Jesus our lord!

The amazing result of our becoming a slave of the lord Jesus is; he as our master, our slave owner is required to provide for us in every way and enable us to live according to the righteous requirements of his God and his Father and ours! He came to indwell [tabernacle in] all those whom his God and Father will place in him, by the power of His Spirit which He has given to His son Jesus, to give unto those that are His. It was Jesus who poured out the promised Spirit of God at Pentecost! God has given to him not only to have life in himself but to give us to have a measure of his spirit, which gives us to have life in ourselves, resurrection life, new age life; to be enabled to walk in faith obedience before him!

So in summary, our repentance and baptism are just the beginning of our salvation walk. As regenerate persons we are to now seek to be renewed in our mind and spirit, to become more and more like the lord Jesus. Jesus was the outshining of His God and Father on this earth and is now seated at His side in the heavenlies! May we all strive to become the sons/daughters that our God and Father who has given us every means to enter into the coming Kingdom of God. The lord Jesus has given us his all, we need to respond by giving him our all, in total commitment to him.

We need to abide in his love and walk through this sin-sick world as a light to all those we come in contact with. To show forth the lord Jesus God's anointed one in our lives, in all we say and do. We do so as his willing slaves seeking to do our master's will, and in doing so will have entrance into the coming new age and the Kingdom of God. May that day soon come!

Written by Bruce Lyon for E-Bible