Prosperity
This morning in my Bible reading I read from 2 Chronicles and once again this verse caught my attention. " And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God : and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper." 2 Chronicles 26:5 We all want to prosper – but what does that mean exactly? What does prosperity look like? I know most people will consider one prosperous if they own a lot of material goods – a nice home, a nice car, designer clothes, etc. But the truth is I have known people that have lots of material things that are absolutely miserable! In fact I remember a time in my life when we were going through some of our darkest hours – our daughter had cancer, we were going through a recession, our lease was up on our car so we had to turn it in, and we had no money for another one, groceries were scarce…as I said a very dark time. With all that was going on – ...