Our Riches Abound

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.

Ephesians 3: 8

As a great divine said on his deathbed, “We are all of us only half awake.” The best Christian among us knows but little of his glorious Savior … We see through a glass darkly. We do not realize the “unsearchable riches” there are in him. When we wake up … in another world, we shall be amazed that we knew him so imperfectly, and loved him so (relatively) little. Let us seek to know him better now, and live in closer communion with him…We shall feel, “I have all and abound: I want nothing more. Christ dying for me on the cross – Christ ever interceding for me at God’s right hand – Christ dwelling in my heart by faith – Christ soon coming agin to gather me and all his people together to part no more, Christ is enough for me. Having Christ, I have ‘unsearchable riches.'”

• J.C. Ryle, Holiness, as taken from the KJV Devotional Bible, Hendrickson Publishers, 2011 Edition.

Unsearchable Riches

1. Oh, the unsearchable riches of Christ,
   Wealth that can never be told!
   Riches exhaustless of mercy and grace,
   Precious, more precious than gold!
   • Refrain:
     Precious, more precious,
     Wealth that can never be told!
     Oh, the unsearchable riches of Christ!
     Precious, more precious than gold.
2. Oh, the unsearchable riches of Christ!
   Who shall their greatness declare?
   Jewels whose luster our lives may adorn,
   Pearls that the poorest may wear!
3. Oh, the unsearchable riches of Christ!
   Freely, how freely they flow,
   Making the souls of the faithful and true
   Happy wherever they go!
4. Oh, the unsearchable riches of Christ!
   Who would not gladly endure
   Trials, afflictions, and crosses on earth,
   Riches like these to secure!

• Fanny Crosby 1882