Friday, June 21, 2019

Prosperity

A recent advertisement read:

The Way to Prosperity is Through Education!

While it is true that education may help us to get a job and “provide things honest in the sight of all men” (Romans 12:17), it is still not God’s formula for spiritual success. God’s recipe for success is contained in His words to Joshua on the banks of the Jordan River just before entering the land of Canaan. “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success” (Joshua 1:8).

To apply this to our life today, there are three things we need to do to have real success in life:

1. Read the Word of God

2. Meditate on the Word of God

3. Obey the Word of God.

This does not mean that we will necessarily become rich or have success by the world’s standards, but it does mean that we will have spiritual prosperity, and isn’t that what really counts in our Christian experience?