24x24 Acrylic, Palm Bark, Sand on Gallery wrapped canvas.

To know God through Christ and His redeeming work is to be rich indeed.

The Scriptures have much to say about the infinite riches of God. They tell us of "the riches of His glory" (Rom.9:23, Eph. 3: 16), "the riches of His wisdom and knowledge" (Rom. 1 1:33), "the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering" (Rom.2:4) and "the riches of His grace (Eph. 1:7, 2:7). God would have us enjoy these riches through faith in Christ, who died for our sins.

"For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich" II II Corinthians 8:9 We should rejoice continually that God, in addition to being rich in wisdom and knowledge and in glory and power, is also "rich in mercy" (Eph.2:4) and that "the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Rom. 10:12-13).

Perception is how we see  many things, often from a worldly view. Even in our churches we might perceive “value” to mean what we do for Christ. In the end, the true and right perception is how Christ perceives us.