Poor in Spirit

Jesus Christ said, blessed (happy) is the poor in spirit. This sounds counterintuitive until we realize that to meet Christ (to be saved) we must not depend on our own happiness, but rather have total dependence on Him. We spend most our lives trying to be happy and wondering why we are not happy. We peruse pleasure, wealth, fame, status, pride, laziness, lust and more just to fill the empty void. What we must do is allow the emptiness to be filled by God and change us from the inside out.