She had gone down in history as “America’s Greatest Miser.” When she died in 1916, “Hetty” Green left an estate valued at over $100 million. She had eaten cold oatmeal because it cost to heat it; her son had suffered a leg amputation because she spent
so long looking for a free clinic that his case became incurable. She was wealthy, yet she chose to live like a pauper.

Eccentric? Certainly! Crazy? Perhaps—but nobody could prove it. She was so foolish that she hastened her own death by bringing on an attack of apoplexy while arguing about the value of drinking skimmed milk! But Hetty Green is an illustration of too many Christian believers today. They have limitless wealth at their disposal, yet they live like paupers.

God the Father has made us rich in Jesus Christ! When you were born again into God’s family, you were born rich. Through Christ, you share in the riches of God’s grace, God’s glory, God’s mercy, and “the unsearchable riches of Christ.” Our Heavenly Father is not poor, He is rich—and He has made us rich in His Son.

Think of it! “God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 2:27, NIV).

Read: the following Ephesians passages and match them up with the last few lines of the reading: 1:7, 18; 2:4, 7; 3:8, 16.

Action assignment: Ask God to %how you how to live less like a pauper and to make His spiritual blessings a greater reality to you.

Warren Wiersbe
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