Chapter 179—Unsearchable Riches
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given,
that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
Christ.
Ephesians 3:8
.
It is not because of any restriction on the part of God that the riches of
His grace do not flow earthward to men. If all were willing to receive, all
would become filled with His Spirit.
It is the privilege of every soul to be a living channel through which God
can communicate to the world the treasures of His grace, the unsearchable
riches of Christ. There is nothing that Christ desires so much as agents who
will represent to the world His Spirit and character. There is nothing that the
world needs so much as the manifestation through humanity of the Saviour’s
love. All heaven is waiting for channels through which can be poured the
holy oil to be a joy and blessing to human hearts.
“God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, ...
and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus: that in ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of
his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus” (
Ephesians 2:4-7
).
Such are the words in which “Paul the aged,” “a prisoner of Jesus Christ,”
writing from his prison house at Rome, endeavored to set before his brethren
that which he found language inadequate to express in its fulness—“the
unsearchable riches of Christ,” the treasure of grace freely offered to the
fallen sons of men.
As your soul yearns after God, you will find more and still more of the
unsearchable riches of His grace. As you contemplate these riches, you will
come into possession of them, and will reveal the merits of the Saviour’s
sacrifice, the protection of His righteousness, the fulness of His wisdom, and
His power to present you before the Father “without spot, and blameless” (
2
Peter 3:14
).
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