About
the riches of Christ…
1 Corinthians 1:5 For in him you have
been enriched in every way--in all your speaking and in all your knowledge (NIV)
As
Christians, we too often take our spiritual wealth for granted. As Christians,
we hopefully do not walk this earth in spiritual poverty because in Christ, we
are rich. The spiritually poor are all around us. In Christ, we must pray for
those who are spiritually poor…those who do not know Him. We must pray others
become wealthy in their knowledge and wisdom about how much God loves them and
cares for them.
We
can own treasures and lands of the earth but if we do not have the riches of
Christ in our heart, we are poor. We can know how people behave and perhaps we
may even know how to get others to do our bidding, but if we do not have
spiritual knowledge about others in the light of Christ, we are poor. Truly, as
a Christian our knowledge and wisdom about how to live a bountiful and blessed
life surpasses all the human wisdom we could ever possess if we did not know
Him. Our knowledge and wisdom about unconditional love, forgiveness, giving, and
compassion makes us rich when we deal with and interact with others. In
addition, our knowledge and wisdom about Christ gives us a power to deal with
every trial and every adversity. Praise God we can know Him and love Him.
