Wealth and Poverty: Prosperity: Satan's question

Saturday, 2 May 2015

Prosperity teaching raises the very question that Satan asked God --

“Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God." - Job 1:9

Though Job's faith was proved genuine, many other people are less interested in God Himself than in the fringe benefits we claim that He offers.

He that serves God for money will serve he Devil for better wages. Sir Robert L'Estrange.

We law-abiding high-living consumers, satisfy our self-indulgent whims and appetites for comfort

or pleasure through clearly superior means--we buy ever-larger houses and fill them with ever-more goodies. "And

where is the harm in that?" we ask, not seeking or wanting an answer. We deny the obvious truth that there is always a

more Christian use for money that is spent self-indulgently. We even have the audacity to tell ourselves and others

that we "earn" or "deserve" the goodies that give us comfort and pleasure. We seem to have little difficulty divorcing

wealth, materialism, and self-indulgent consumption from serious contemplation of Christian morality. Randy Alcorn