Enjoying Even While Not Fully Comprehending - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 8:9 NKJV

Enjoying Even While Not Fully Comprehending
We know this grace, yet we must confess we know only a little of its depth. A little child hears his parents tell him that Jesus died for him on the cross. He hears what his parents say, he knows he has done wrong things, has been bad, and in simplicity he asks Jesus to forgive his sins and save him.

He has never come into personal contact with death. He has never known the intense agony of being crucified, so does not really grasp what a huge, immeasurably loving deed Christ's death on the cross at Calvary was. He does not understand what Christ's death meant to God the Father. There is so very, very much he does not know and cannot take in given his age and lack of maturity. He sings, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so" before he can read the words he is singing! Yet he is just as saved and just as secure and just as rich as he ever will be! As time goes on and he grows older, he will enter into these precious things and enjoy them more and more.

Jesus became poor. We see this repeatedly in the Gospels. We never see Him lugging even one change of clothing with Him as He went from place to place doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil. He even asked to be shown a denarius! Another time, He had Peter catch a fish with a larger coin in its mouth.

We are enjoying His loving care for us day by day, while not yet realizing the greatness of the riches already ours by His grace. But we will appreciate and fully enjoy the riches our Lord Jesus has brought us when with Him in glory, where He is the center of all in heaven and on earth. What thoughts will then rejoice our hearts, and what worship will then ascend to His ears and heart!

-- Eugene P. Vedder, Jr.