Message from Scripture: 6/23/2020

Today’s message from Scripture comes from Eph. 3:8; “Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.”

We are familiar with passages of Scripture that speak of the riches of the blessings God offers us in Christ. Earlier in his letter to the church at Ephesus Paul reminded his readers we have all spiritual blessings in Christ (Eph. 1:3). Peter reminded his readers that God has called us by His own glory and excellence, that He might offers us everything that pertains to life and godliness, that we can be partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:3-4). While these are magnificent and wonderful to consider, Paul also tells us they are unsearchable.

What does that mean, that the gospel preached offers us unsearchable riches in Christ? The term lit. means impossible to be traced out, unsearchable. Job speaks of it when he said, “Who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number” (Job 9:10). Paul adds, “O the depths of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways!” (Rom. 11:33).

Who of us has the mind of God to understand all that He does? To know all that He knows? To grasp how great, how effective, the full extent what God offers us in Christ means and blesses us? The gospel offers us everything, and our ability to comprehend it all, and to apply it all, falls far short of all it provides us, of what it enables us to be in Christ. This much we can know. Our eyes see the glory of the gospel when people are humbled and willing to be immersed into Christ. Our eyes see the glory of God’s providence when opportunities to evangelize are given us. Our eyes see the glory of the power of redeeming love when we sin and yet our Lord offers us opportunities to repent and return.

Though we cannot grasp the full extent of God’s riches for us in Christ, we rejoice in how great they are, in what they enable us to be and do, and the glory they lead to in eternity. Let that thought help you have a great day in Christ. God bless.

Robert