"For your sakes he became poor" (2 Corinthians 8: 9).
The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but "though he was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor." The rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless he gives his substance to minister to their necessities. Likewise, it is impossible that our divine Lord could have had fellowship with us unless He had imparted to us of His own abounding wealth and had become poor to make us rich. Had He remained on His throne of glory, and had we continued in the ruins of the fall without receiving His salvation, communion would have been impossible on both sides. Our position by the fall, apart from the covenant of grace, made it as impossible for fallen man to communicate with God as it is for Belial to be in agreement with Christ. It was necessary that the righteous Savior give to His sinning brethren of His own perfection and that we, the poor guilty, should receive of His fullness grace for grace. Thus in giving and receiving, the one might descend from the heights, and the others ascend from the depths, and so be able to embrace each other in true and hearty fellowship. Jesus much clothe His people in His own garments, or He cannot admit them into His palace of glory. He must wash them in His own blood, or else they will be too defiled for the embrace of His fellowship. Believer, here is love! For your sake the Lord Jesus became poor, that He might lift you up into communion with Himself.