"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for your sake became poor, so that through his poverty you might become rich."

(2 Corinthians 8:9)

"but he emptied himself, becoming a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest position and gave him the name that is above every name,"

(Philippians 2:7-9)

Love has a very striking characteristic that Jesus taught us, which is that whoever loves deprives himself. Let us reflect on the example of the Lord who, being the King of the universe, the Lord of creation, became poor and rich, emptied himself and became like us, but went further because he became a servant of all, taking our the sins on the cross, since he gave himself up to pay the debt we owed for sin; and the scripture tells us, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written: Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree)” (Galatians 3:13). He became a curse for us, so that all blessings would fall upon us and also so that we would be heirs of his righteousness, because “He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become righteousness. of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

What spectacular news, Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, loved us and washed us from our sins with his blood, the one who is, the one who was and the one who is to come, the Almighty, who will come in the clouds and all eyes they will see him, and all the tribes of the earth will weep for him; He first emptied himself of his estate so that we may now possess all riches in glory in Christ Jesus and be made kings and priests unto God, to proclaim the praises of him who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light (Revelation 1 :5-8, Philippians 4:19, 1 Peter 2:9).

We too are called to strip ourselves of everything that prevents us from enjoying his undeserved favor, of every burden, and this means trusting fully in the work of Christ, not throwing away his grace, and abandoning our old way of life. so that we can enjoy what Jesus on the cross gave us. Our dispossession is the opposite of Jesus, because we had nothing, perhaps kings of our kingdom of our pride and vanity, of our vainglory, so we must strip ourselves of what has no value to take what has such a high value that it only could be repaid with his precious blood (Hebrews 12:1, Ephesians 4:22-24, Galatians 2:21).

Let us pray:

Lord Jesus Christ, because of you I am what I am and I have all your riches in glory, I do not deserve it, but you gave everything for me, now I want to teach others your gospel with all love and gratitude, for the glory of God the Father, amen.