Lack
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9
Lack: the state of being without or not having enough of something.
Chacer(Hebrew): fail, want, lessen
Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. John 6:5-13, ESV
The disciples had been with Jesus for sometime now and they had seen him do miracles before, but they still did not realize who was before them. We can all be that way in our own lives. We pray and ask God for something, he answers our prayers and we soon forget how he brought us out of our difficult situations. For example your car breaks down and you get hit with a huge car repair bill and there is no money in your budget to cover it. We can easily forget that God is standing right there waiting to help us. Just like the disciples, they didn’t realize that the resource they needed was standing right in front of them.
The scripture above says that our Lord Jesus Christ, though he was rich became poor, so that we who are in poverty could become rich. This Bible verse is telling us that once you accept Jesus Christ as our personal savior, you have become rich. You receive all that Jesus received. You have his inheritance. Immediately, you receive a direct deposit into your account as an heir of his. The reason the inheritance comes immediately is because Jesus already died. We all have to wait for our relatives to die to receive their inheritance. But that is not so with Jesus because he has already done the work necessary for us to just receive.
Scripture teaches that we are not to look at the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. We are to keep looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith. He who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. No matter what we face, God has already prepared the answer!
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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