He Became Poor that We Might Become Rich

By A.W. Tozer, Sunday, May 02, 2004

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. (2 Corinthians 8:9)

The announcement of the birth of Christ came as a sunburst of joy to a world where grief and pain are known to all and joy comes rarely and never tarries long.

The joy the angel brought to the awe-struck shepherds was not to be a disembodied wisp of religious emotion, swelling and ebbing like the sound of an aeolian harp in the rising and falling of the wind. Rather it was and is a state of lasting gladness resulting from tidings that there was born in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord. It was an overflowing sense of well-being that had every right to be there.

The birth of Christ told the world something. That He should come to be born of a woman, to make Himself of no reputation and, being found in fashion as a man, to humble Himself even to death on a cross--this is a fact so meaningful, so eloquent as to elude even the power of a David or an Isaiah fully to celebrate. His coming, I repeat, told the world something; it declared something, established something. What was it?

Prayer
Lord, You have made me a spiritual billionaire. May I so live.

Thought
Incomprehensible the sacrifice Christ made for us. He laid aside His glory as the Son of God to enter this world as a weak human baby. He voluntarily became poor with the purpose that we might become rich. Are we living in the experience of that richness?

Source: Tozer Devotional