THE WEALTH OF JESUS IS FOR YOU

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich. – 2Co 8:9.

Jesus is God, He owns the “cattle upon the thousand hills”, (Ps 50:10). In Rev

5:11-14, John talks of seeing “millions and millions” (CEV) of angels, along with every creature in Heaven and Earth worshipping Him.

So I find it absurd to hear teachings that try to claim that Jesus was never poor as a man, (citing things like the kind of clothes He wore, the type of donkey He rode, etc.). They miss the point totally; that’s like praising superman for flying first-class.

The Apostle Paul declares that a good way to understand the grace of God is to consider the Incarnation: “though he was rich”, yet for your sakes he became poor...”.

If Christ had been born in the best hospital and lived in the most luxurious home on Earth, He’d still have been wretchedly poor compared to what He had before.

And here comes the good news: He became poor, “that you through his poverty might be rich”. What a glorious substitution.

 “But Bro Greg, I’m so broke right now; it seems they forgot to jot down my bank account details when my name was written in the Book of Life at my salvation.”

Beloved, if you want to know what you got at salvation then look at what Christ gave up for your sake! It wasn’t a fat bank account or a beach house on the Caribbean. It was “power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing” (Rev 5:12).

If you find that incredible then you can understand Paul’s incapability to properly communicate to us the extent of what we have “in Christ”. In Eph 1:15-19, he says he prays continuously for the church to be able to understand “the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe.”

 

Beloved, the wealth of Christ has been made available to you. Your entire lifetime is too short to discover all of it, not to talk of exhausting it. Do not allow the Devil to keep you so enmeshed in one want after another that you don’t look up to see that your God shall supply all your need “according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Php 4:19).

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN