Who is this Christ Whose riches are unsearchable, and Whose love is beyond knowledge?
Many are His titles, great is His personal glory, but the way in which He has been bringing Himself before us, as He always does when we are gathered for the remembrance of Himself in death, is as our Savior. How unsearchable are His riches; and His love beyond knowledge!
There is a wide range in age and experience in those who have remembered Him here in this little company this morning, by partaking of the memorials of His death—memorials which He in love gave on that dark night, and as He spoke from heaven in glory—but there is not one of us but what can enjoy those words: "the unsearchable riches of Christ," "the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge."
He is your Savior and my Savior. But Whose Son is He? He is the Son of God, so we go on from one riches, so to speak, to another.
(Eph. 1:5, 65Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. (Ephesians 1:5‑6) quoted.) Don't be afraid of that word "predestinated." He marked us out for sons,—for the adoption of children, and has taken us into favor with the Beloved. Think of this Christ Whose love is beyond knowledge, Whose love is beyond searching out,—unsearchable riches.
In this way we go from wealth to wealth, and gather up these unsearchable riches of this One beyond knowledge.
The deepest joy, I believe, of the Holy Spirit here on earth is to unfold to the hearts of God's people the unsearchable riches of Christ, and the unknowable love of Christ.
The Spirit and the bride say, "Come" (Rev. 22:1717And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Revelation 22:17)). The servant in Gen. 24 longed to get back, and present the results of his work; and Rebekah longed to be there too. Both had one object before them, i. e., the end of the journey. The Holy Spirit, when unhindered, takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us-the wealth of His love. We can't measure the wealth. Just think of what is found in Christ for the sinner; eternal life, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, sonship, according to His riches in glory are what are found in Him for us all.
We can not comprehend the fullness of these riches in Christ, which are unsearchable.
Let us keep before us "the unsearchable riches of Christ", and "the love of Christ which passeth knowledge."
Hymn 196, L. F. Prayer.