Old Testament Riches

A mother in Israel came to praise God. Her prayer had been answered. And as she poured out her heart, the Spirit of God opens her vision. In holy joy she cries out: "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and He has set the world upon them." 1 Sam. 2:8
A great conception this was and yet it still does not express fully our glorious inheritance, our riches in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Poor beggars upon a dunghill we are by nature, but that blessed One came down into our misery and took us from the dunghill to where He is; into His Riches, to His Glory to share His Throne.
How little our hearts enter into it all. And yet our God desires us to enter by faith into these wonderful thoughts of love towards us in Christ.
More than anything else, the true conception of our Riches in Christ, which we shall before long share with Him in Glory, will keep us in the place of separation unto Him and teach us to walk worthy of the Lord. With such Riches in view and such a destiny, how holy our lives will become. As these Riches are before our souls, we shall be satisfied to walk in His path, the path of humility and suffering, satisfied to be nothing here and willing to share His reproach. How simple it then becomes to take the lowest place, and with joy, welcome all that humbles us. For His sake, Who gave up all, we can become constrained by His mighty love and know the joy set before us. As joint heirs we shall be more and more willing to endure the cross and despise the shame. As we consider His Glory, His Riches and our place in Him now, we know that soon with Him we shall enjoy fully His Riches and Glory forever.
But not only are we to share all this with Him in the future, but even while here on earth, as saved ones who have passed from death unto life, we await Him and his Glory as those who are rich even now. At the close of that lovely Epistle to the Philippians we read: "But my God shall supply all your need according to His Riches in Glory in Christ Jesus." Phil. 4:19
And in the beginning of Ephesians we read: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ." Eph. 13 In Colossians we hear that in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and that we are complete in Him.
Let us also remember that precious word that we find on the summit heights of the epistle to the Romans: "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things 7
Rom. 8:32
All we need in spiritual blessing, strength and power, all and everything, we have in Him Who paid so fully at the cross. He Who became so poor that we might be so rich.
How dreadful if we, inheriting such riches, with every spiritual blessing now at our disposal and a Lord Who is ready to fill us with the very fullness of Himself, shame on us if we do not use these riches, if we neglect so great salvation. Let us not be guilty of it. Many of God's people need by faith to live upon their freely given riches in Christ.
Israel failed with their covenant and earthly land and did not take possession of it. We also fail in not entering into the riches that are ours. If Israel had gone in and possessed the whole land, they would have come to an end of inheriting the land for there was a limit to the boundaries of the land.
It is far different with the riches we have in Christ. We can never exhaust them for they are, like Himself, infinite.
We are children now, but when He comes we shall be full-grown sons. What a revelation we shall have then as to His Riches our Riches! What a Glory it will be when He has His completed church with Him and His full inheritance in the Saints. What a Glory when He comes as the Firstborn bringing the many sons with Him to glory. We shall share His Throne. We shall reign with Him over the earth and have control with Him over the works of His hand. And then shall roll on the mighty song of praise so feebly uttered now here below by the few: "Unto Him that loveth us, and has washed us from our sins in His own blood and made us kings and priests unto God His Father; to Him be Glory and Dominion forever and ever. Amen." Rev. 1:5-6
Let us turn more to the Word of Prophecy. We read in the Old Testament and in our New Testament prophetic Scriptures, and the book of the Revelation that He received from God, and gave to us concerning His coming glories. These things do not concern Him alone, but concern us as His joint heirs also.