Matt 5:1-2 (focus on 5:4)

Discipleship Habit 05 Accountability
DiscipleshipReflection Question: Do you meet with others for mutual accountability where these is confession of sin on a regular basis?
Matt 5:1-2 (focus on 5:4)
• In verse 3 we notice the first step of blessedness is to recognise our spiritual poverty, the fact that we have nothing of worth to make God love us, but that he loves us anyway because he created us and loves us as his children.
• In verse 4 we have a second step of blessedness which is to be mournful about our spiritual failings, not sorrow we have been caught in sinfulness, but mournful of the offence of our sinfulness to God.
• What do you think is the difference between being mournful because we have been caught versus being mournful for doing something wrong even if nobody knows?
• Being mournful or sorrowful for sin happens when we recognise that sin is an offence against God and is the reason Jesus had to come and die for us. Do you or have you felt mournful for the things you have done that were part of the reason Jesus had to die on the cross for you?
• What offences exist in your life at present that you need to come mournfully to God about, to confess them and seek to his help to change that aspect of your life?
• Spend some time confessing and receiving his comfort that those things are forgiven and that God loves you in spite of any of our failings.