Have you ever thought that you can become rich through poverty? Does that sound like an impossibility? Does it sound contradictory? Do you know you have been made rich through the poverty of Jesus Christ?
Gaining riches through poverty doesn’t compute to us in human terms. We seek riches through hard work, saving our money, or even by playing the lottery. So many in this world are seeking riches in all the wrong ways and even the wrong riches.
For those of us who have accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we have become rich. Our riches exist in eternal life with Him. But those riches did not come to us through our own effort. They came to us because Jesus became poor to serve as the perfect lamb of God so we may be saved.
Think about it for just a minute. Jesus, left the riches of heaven to become poor, to live as we do, for us. He left a place of perfection to come to a place of imperfection. He left a plan of pure beauty to come to a place of ugliness, filled with hate, anger, and discrimination.
What are we to do with this information? We are to appreciate what Jesus has done and thank Him for being willing to become poor for our sake. We are to show our thankfulness by telling others His story and living our lives as He would have us live them.
I pray we all appreciate Jesus becoming poor so we may be rich. I pray we thank Jesus for doing what He did for us. I pray each one of us will share His story with others so they may become rich as well. Jesus left the riches of heaven. Jesus became poor for us. Give Him thanks.
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
Marty Pressey 