“RICH BEYOND MEASURE”

A DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT WRITTEN BY AUTHOR PAUL DAVID TRIPP

Being rich is not a money matter: not big houses, not big bank accounts, not expensive cars, not collections of luxuries. You can have all these things and more and be sadly and miserably poor. Building a warehouse of cash and material things is not a pathway to real wealth. Many have tried, seduced by feelings of riches, hoping the next thing will satisfy, only to feel empty inside: poor of heart. 

Poverty is a life of chasing things that have no ability to satisfy. 

Being rich, experiencing wealth that is satisfying, lasting, transformative and producing a profound gratitude that captures the heart and satiates the soul and gives new meaning to everything is not a matter of material stuff but of identity. 

The deepest, most eternally wonderful of all identities cannot be earned. It is not of our choosing but of being chosen. 

From before eternity, our identity – the only one that really matters, that makes us incredibly eternally rich – was written in God’s family journal. 

Before the past was the past, now was now, before earth was, and we were, God claimed us as his own, wrapped arms of grace around us, and guaranteed we would be forever loved, eternally rich, with satisfied hearts and peaceful souls, never to be poor again, in the only way that matters. 

If you are God’s child, this is your identity. You are not your possessions. You are not your achievements. You are not your money.

You are the son or daughter of the God of glory and grace. Your father is the King of kings. You are a citizen of his kingdom, one of his priests.
You have been freed from sin by the shed blood of his Son. The one who has showered you with such love reigns now and forever in glory and dominion.

When you get up in the morning, remind yourself that you are eternally loved, that your Father reigns in power and glory, that sin will never have the final victory over you, and that you have been welcomed into a kingdom that will never end.

By grace, your search for identity has ended. By grace, you are rich beyond measure.

A Prayer for Today: Lord, help me to understand true riches. Help me to remember that I am eternally loved, that you reign in power and glory, that sin will never have the final victory over me, and that I have been welcomed into a kingdom that will never end. Lord, by faith I trust you and your provision for me in every way. Thank you that because of Christ, I am rich beyond measure. In his precious name I pray, amen.