The Importance of Sackcloth and Ashes

The less we have to offer God, the more he has to work with. The prophet sees some sackcloth and ashes on a king or official or a priest or something like that. And he knows that this is exactly the space that God is looking to work in. Broken to contrite spirit. That's where God likes to work. He loves it especially when it is a leader who is now wearing, wearing sackcloth.