Only in seeing Him do we see ourselves rightly

“Look at Him; and the more we look at Him, the more hopeless shall we feel by ourselves, and in and of ourselves, and the more shall we become ‘poor in spirit’. Look at Him, keep looking at Him. Look at the saints, look at the men who have been most filled with the Spirit and used. But above all, look again at Him, and then you will have nothing to do to yourself. It will be done. You cannot truly look at Him without feeling your absolute poverty, and emptiness. Then you say to Him, ‘Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling.’”

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (p42)