Word For Today: Poverty of Soul By Billy Graham

For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me . . .
—Jeremiah 4:22

No man is more pathetic than he who is in great need and is not aware
of it. Remember Samson? Standing there in the valley of Sorek,
surrounded by the lords of the Philistines, ” . . . he wist not that
the Lord was departed from him.” It has been truly said, “No man is so
ignorant as he who knows nothing and knows not that he knows nothing.
No man is so sick as he who has a fatal disease and is not aware of
it. No man is so poor as he who is destitute, and yet thinks he is
rich.” The pitiable thing about the Pharisees was not so much their
hypocrisy as it was their utter lack of knowledge of how poor they
actually were in the sight of God. There is always something pathetic
about a man who thinks he is rich when he is actually poor, who thinks
he is good when he is actually vile, who thinks he is educated when he
is actually illiterate.

Prayer for the day

Might I always remember the poverty of my soul before Your love
invaded my life, Lord Jesus, and I knew You as Savior.