Some people love to hear about the prosperity, others think it is a
fallacy because it is inconsistent with the way the average righteous person
tends to live his life in a world where a “prosperous person” is referred to as
one with lots of money, who lives with much luxury, better than the rest, and
therefore envied by everyone else. That is why even some Christians say they do
not like the “Prosperity Gospel” because it gives a false image of what Jesus
tried to show when He was among us. He lived within the working people,
interacted with the needy, the sick, the low class people, prostitutes, the ones excluded from society,
the poor community, the not wanted, the worse kind, but WHY? He said of Himself:
The
Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life a
ransom for many. (Matthew 20.28) So He wanted the ones who suffered to
know there was someone who cared about them. I’ve never heard that He was
invited to a rich person’s home for dinner or just to talk, though they did
meet with him, but at night, when no one could recognize them (Nicodemus,
John 3.1-15) , and the one’s rich home He invited Himself to was also a
repelled one by the population (Zaccheus, Luke 19. 1-10) The only time he visited a rich people’s premises
was when he was taken captive to be accused, tortured and killed. Why, then,
can some preachers speak about the “prosperity” as a gospel of goodness?
I have heard many preachers on Christian TV, in English and Spanish too.
I do not like some and I love some others because I feel they are saying the
truths the Bible teaches. I read my Bible everyday and let the Lord speak to me
so when I hear someone preach I know if their message comes from God or not. We
have to be prepared to discern the Scriptures and recognize the tone, just like
in music. Prosperity is good when it comes from above and Christian TV has
saved many from the claws of the devil. It eases the soul.
Prosperity, like “the world” looks at it, could be like a rich and greedy
man Jesus talked about in Luke, chapter 12, who felt “lucky” and thought only
of himself and his goods, wanting to build bigger barns to store them, to take
it easy, eat drink and be merry, but God said to him: “You fool! This very night your
soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?” So is
the man who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God. (verse
20, 21) So God does not like
greedy and selfish people, but if we are humble and put Him first, asking Him
for wisdom to live a correct life, He will bless us and prosperity will come
with it, as it happened to King Solomon (1 Kings 4.21-34). So the KEY is God
(Jesus and his teachings). The Bible is full of prosperous people who sought
the Lord’s ways and were blessed while they did. I wouldn’t have much space to
name them all, but if you look in a Biblical concordance or dictionary under
“prosper” you could find many and where you can read their stories.
Some say “New Year, New Life” for the propositions made, but the only
way you can have a New Life is if you
made the proposition to render your life to Jesus Christ.
Therefore
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away;
behold new things have come.
( 2 Corinthians 5.17)
Have a great
and prosperous NEW YEAR!
