Wednesday February 23

This is Gordon MacDonald on 2 Corinthians 8:9

Think of Christ; think of grace. He came to the world as a "rich" person. As Son of God, He was rich in position; as heir of all the treasures of heaven, Jesus was rich in inheritance. Prior to His incarnation, there is nothing He did not know, nothing He could not do; no one possessed greater amounts of power and knowledge. However, He exchanged all this richness for a form of poverty. "He became poor." Poor, how? He became the sacrificial Lamb of God and forfeited His life that out of the atoning work of the cross, spiritually poor people (each of us) might become rich.

Genuine Christianity compels the true Christian to become a generous person because the central act of our faith is an act of generosity. "He became poor that we might become rich." It cost Christ to transfer wealth-of-spirit to us.