Do you want to be rich? Well, I can tell you that I’m the richest person in the world, and you can be too. Here’s the secret. It’s all a matter of having the Lord in your spirit (2 Timothy 4:22). Colossians 3:11 says that Christ is all and in all. The phrase Christ is all means that He is everything. The phrase in all indicates that the One who is everything is in us.
In Ephesians 3:8, the apostle Paul uses a particular phrase: the unsearchable riches of Christ. Our Christ who lives in us (Colossians 1:27) is unsearchably rich. We can’t put a limit on who and what Christ is. He is everything. He is not just the things that we need. He is simply everything. Christ is the reality of all positive things in the universe. Open to any chapter in the Bible, and you can find Christ.
In 1 Timothy 2:3-4, we see that our Savior God…desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth. As we discover the unsearchable riches of Christ, we come to the full knowledge of the truth. But here’s a question: how can the full knowledge of the truth become our experience? We could know a lot about something, but it might just be objective facts with no experience or reality to back up that knowledge.
Romans 10:12 says, the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all who call upon Him. Like Ephesians 3:8, this verse mentions the Lord being rich, and then it adds a way to experience and enjoy our rich Lord: call upon Him! What does it mean to call upon the Lord? Well, the next verse says, for whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. When we call on the name of the Lord, our Lord becomes unsearchably rich to us in a personal way.
Calling on the name of the Lord is a way to experience the riches of Christ. O Lord Jesus! Calling on the name of the Lord is a wonderful way to enjoy the Lord. We call someone’s name to get their attention. In the same way, when we call on the name of the Lord, we get the Lord’s attention. Even more, we get everything that He is. We get His very Person.
O Lord Jesus! Thank You Lord for Your wonderfully rich name!
Truth and Experience 