His riches in glory for us.

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Each one of us as children of God have the privilege of receiving the most beautiful gifts from God through his immense grace through the work of Jesus on the cross of Calvary.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints and faithful in Christ Jesus who are in Ephesus: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 according as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him, 5 having predestined us in love for the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he has made us accepted in the Beloved, 7 in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding,

Ephesians 1:1-8

Is it necessary to have a large bank account with many millions or to get the most expensive luxury car in existence to consider ourselves rich? Perhaps it seems somewhat rude to think that this is the only thing that defines wealth, there are standards of the world that define it this way, "wealth is measured by everything a person has." But this is too short.
Whether we are rich or not, there are people who see money as the object that defines their life, that is to say: for poor people money is their goal, subjective happiness and satisfaction, in this sense greed comes into play and it affects both rich and poor.
Here it is not about judging the rich or the poor, it is about understanding and realizing that earthly wealth is circumstantial and has nothing to do with who we are in Christ, because regardless of our earthly wealth we can choose by faith to be rich in Christ, to appropriate what he has earned for us. We can spend our entire Christian life observing our debt or what we owe to God for what he has done with us, we can also recognize what we are worth to God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and that we are partakers of the richest blessings in Christ Jesus.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in sins, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:4-7

In the main text we have read that God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing, He has done it (past) this means that He has already done it long before we knew it. God does not bless us in quota, His word clearly says that He has poured out abundant blessings on us.

3 among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest.

Ephesians 2:3

Let's do an exercise: take our eyes off our riches for a second and write on a sheet of paper a prayer list for all the blessings that God has given us, for everything we have received. This reminds us of God's goodness, his abundant grace, it reminds us that God makes us partakers of the abundant riches of his grace.