View from My Place – “How Rich Are You?”

Every believer is rich beyond imagination. Beyond all earthly measures. Billionaires, Trillionaires. And whatever comes after that.

But these are not earthly riches. They are better. Much better! Better because they are unfading. Better because they are secure. Better because they fill the soul in ways earthly riches never can.

These riches are of Christ, and they are in Christ. He is the mine where the treasures are stored. External blessings are like diamonds scattered on the ground. But instead of following the trail of diamonds away from the mine, like so many, the counter‑intuitive faith-move is to go deeper inside. Deeper into Christ. Deeper into relationship with Him. That is where the motherlode sits gleaming brighter than the eye can contain.

This morning, I said to my wife, “The best of me is yet to come.” At first, she thought I meant my life circumstances that lie ahead. But I explained that I was referring to the best of me. The Christ within me unlocking doors behind which are more glorious expressions of Him both in me and through me.

These are the “unsearchable riches” Paul wrote about. The joy David described: “You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound” (Psalm 4:7). The lovingkindness he declared is “better than life” (Psalm 63:3). The surpassing worth Paul proclaimed when he said, “I consider everything else rubbish compared to knowing Christ” (Philippians 3:8).

Day by day I am personally realizing that these words are not poetic exaggeration. Nor are they complete portraits of the reality they describe. No, they are but sketches of riches that surpass knowledge. That dwarf human imagination. Riches that are all about the potential in our relationship with Him. These riches are not just charming spiritual ideas to inspire us; they are realities available to every believer, to enter, explore and proclaim.