2 Corinthians 8:9.
Whoever would have thought in looking upon the Babe of Bethlehem in His borrowed crib that He had been rich? Or who would have thought that the lowly Man who had nowhere to lay His head, and who said "Show me a penny," not only possessed the cattle on a thousand hills but the myriads of worlds that He had created?
To all outward appearances the Son of God was poor, and He had indeed become poor, for although the possessor of all, and the fulness of the Godhead dwelling in Him, He never used His divine resources to alleviate the circumstances of poverty into which He had come.
Laying aside the conditions in which He had been eternally rich, with ten thousand times ten thousand angels waiting to carry out His every command, the Son of God became poor that we through His poverty might be rich. No human mind can possibly conceive how rich He was, nor can any human heart fathom the depths of poverty into which His holy soul entered when, on the cross, He bore our sins, and was made sin for us.
And how rich He has made us! Already He has brought us near to His God and Father where, in relationship with Him, we have been enriched by the riches of His grace. Soon the Lord Jesus will call us hence to be His companions in the bright glory of His kingdom and in the deep joys and divine affections of the Father's House. All the blessings of the kingdom, and all that has been prepared for us for all eternity, according to the counsels of God, we shall owe to Him who was rich, but who for our sakes became poor.
Although the strongest proof of the power of God has been given in Christ's resurrection, yet we see already in the raising of Lazarus a manifestation of this divine power, as well as later in the resurrection of all saints. "This sickness is not unto death … that the Son of God might be glorified thereby" (John 11:4). He was, and is, the resurrection and the life. The power of resurrection is the proof that He is Son of God. This is not a fulfilment of promise, but the power of God there, where death had intervened as the consequence of sin.
J. N. Darby.
There see the Godhead glory
Shine through that human veil;
And, willing, hear the story
Of love that's come to heal!
Disease, and death, and demon,
All fled before Thy word —
As darkness, the dominion
Of day's returning lord!