“HE BECAME POOR!”

 

2 Corinthians 8:8-15                 (ESV)

“[8] I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. [9] For you know the grace of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, that though HE WAS RICH, yet for your sake “HE BECAME POOR”, so that you by HIS poverty might become rich. [10] And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work BUT ALSO to desire to do it. [11] So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of WHAT YOU HAVE. [12] For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. [13] For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness [14] YOUR ABUNDANCE AT THE PRESENT TIME SHOULD SUPPLY THEIR NEED, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. [15] As it is written, “WHOEVER GATHERED MUCH HAD NOTHING LEFT OVER, AND WHOEVER GATHERED LITTLE HAD NO LACK.””

Accumulating a tremendous amount of wealth is something that from time to time I have dreamed about, but whenever I had the opportunity to INCREASE MY WEALTH, supplying “the needs of others” always seemed to be more important???

In HIS OMNISCIENCE, JESUS CHRIST surrendered HIS POSITION in HEAVEN to come among the unholiness of humanity, in poverty, to PURCHASE the salvation of ALL, even me!  “HE BECAME POOR” has to reflect “worldly wealth” (or lack there of) because HE was STILL THE CREATOR walking amongst us!  “HE BECAME POOR” so that HE WOULD NOT have worldly status interfering with HIS MISSION!!!  

Do I have that mindset in my life???  Or do I have the desire to be wealthy enough to do whatever I please??  

Saying this with ALL HUMILITY, I BELIEVE that because THE SPIRIT OF JESUS lives inside of me, that I CANNOT HELP but to live as HE did during HIS MANIFESTATION to “this world”!  My heart, the heart that JESUS CHRIST now lives in, tells me that “HE BECAME POOR”, and I will never be better than HIM!!!