The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

With the enablement of the Lord, we are going to move in these deep waters and seek to discover a little of the unsearchable riches of Christ - the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge. The apostle who used these words was striving against the limitations of language to give expression to something of what he had come to realise as to the Christ, as to the salvation in Christ into which he had been brought. He does use these many superlatives... straining to find words: unsearchable; inexhaustible; unfathomable; infinite wealth of the riches; oh the depth.... This man was able to speak in this way just for one reason, and you and I will never be able rightly to use such language unless we go the way that he went. In order to find things which are deep, you have to go into the depth. You will never find deep things in the shallows. You have to go down, and down, very low. And that in itself explains the Lord's dealings with His people. It is the answer to the cry of the heart in deep and dark and difficult places and times. Why? If we could but realise it, we should hear the answer coming back: that you may discover and appropriate spiritual wealth. These riches do not lie on the surface at all; they are the hidden treasures of dark and secret places. And wealthy souls are ever and always those which have touched something, not all, of the depth in their walk with God.

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