There was a moment when a person said to me ,'you are poor',it was true in relation to my financial situation.This was when my wife and I were at Bible college.People may have said we were very naive in me leaving my job ,with a wife and three children to support,with no savings.Looking back I can appreciate why they would think that,but the word of God tells us, 'that God has chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith'. Yes that person was right,we were poor financially,but we were rich in faith,and God honoured our faith.Let us consider 2 Corinthians 8 v 9,'But you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich,yet for your sake He became poor , so that you through His poverty mignt become rich'.This verse tells us two things about Jesus,He was rich,where was he rich? in His heavenly kingdom,in John 17 v5,He speaks of the glory He had with the Father before the world began.Then we read that He became poor when He came into this world not to be born of rich parents,or to live in a palace,but to be born into a poor family,why?,the answer comes in the next part of 2 Cor 8 v9,'So that you through His poverty you might become rich'.When a person trusts Christ ,no matter about their lowly status in life, they becaome rich,they become Children of God,with all the blessings that brings.
Once I was clothed in rags of my sin
Wretched and poor lost and lonely within
But with wondrous compassion
The king of all kings in pity nnd love
Took me under His wings (Words Gaither)
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