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Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)
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Prosperity or Poverty?
John is not pushing prosperity here, in the same sense as some preachers do today. His first concern is for the prosperity of our soul. Then it is his ‘wish‘ or ‘prayer‘ that our health and everything else, may go well.
This runs counter to the poverty gospel, one that holds “having material possessions is evil, rich people are ungodly and that self-denial is a means of earning righteousness in God’s eyes”*; but let us not conclude therefore, that it is ‘prosperity’ that John is endorsing.
Mind the soul, leave the rest to God!
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(*credit Christian Post and Crown)
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26 Dec. 2023, setting 1 January as Day 1