Who is the richest?

Forbes magazine came out recently with their yearly list of billionaires around the globe. It appears that fascination with wealth and adoration of riches ranks high on the interest list of many readers these days.

After briefly reviewing the roster of mega-wealthy individuals and some of their business accomplishments to accumulate such wealth, I wondered when a top-selling magazine would someday publish a list of the spiritually richest people around the globe.

Wouldn’t that be a change—a recognition that possessing the treasures of Spirit ranks above the accumulation of temporal things!

I mused about who might be listed as the spiritually wealthiest in the world, but soon quit for I realized that the riches of the Spirit belong to all of us. No one has anymore of the wealth of Spirit than anyone else.

In Christian Science we are to see everyone as a child of God, as fully endowed with the riches of Spirit without limit. We are to see past the outward picture of materiality to the spiritual reality in Mind, and there we find the truth that lasts forever.

And in Truth, we all are equal benefactors of God’s infinite grace and love!

From a human point of view, the observing eye may see people who do good deeds and spread love as being spiritually wealthier than others who live a self-serving life. And this is true, from an outward point of view. But Christian Science takes us deeper, into Spirit, where every man, woman, and child is the offspring of God, and not the product of an earthly environment or worldly past.

When we look beyond material appraisals to the spiritual truth, every single one of us is as equally wealthy as another. There is one God, and one reflection of that God—the perfect man.

The wealthiest person in the world is the one Person, God, of whom we all reflect in our own individual unique way.

So, rejoice in your birthright. You are rich! You are wealthy! As a child of God, you possess greater wealth than the world can ever offer—the wealth of Truth and Love coming from God, and eternally yours.

You are richer than billions of dollars can ever offer, and wealthier than Forbes magazine could ever measure.

We don’t have to wait for a magazine to publish this good news to be assured of it. We can each live out from it today.

Alleluia!

“Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.” Jesus Christ