Must one have an overflowing bank account, a lucrative business with steady flow of monetary income, an ever-climbing investment portfolio, and pounds and pounds of gold, silver, and precious jewels in a vault in order to be rich?

I don’t think so. Oh that we would judge wealth by the Lord’s standards. Let me tell you why I am rich, although I do not have the above-mentioned things:

I have an excellent wife!  (Prov. 12:4a; 31:10)

I have been rewarded, by God’s grace, with two precious boys!  (Ps. 127:3)

I have redemption and forgiveness in Christ, by the kindness, mercy, and grace of God, with an everlasting inheritance guaranteed by the Holy Spirit! (Rom. 10:12; Eph. 1:7, 18; 2:7; 3:8, 16; Col. 1:27)

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you by His poverty might become rich.”
- 2 Corinthians 8:9

I told you I was rich.