When sharing the Good News about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the true living God, being a God of excessive love who showers us with abundance, often critics will counter with “oh well, just another prosperity Gospel.” These critics believe that God is all about bad news, poverty and misery. Yet the Scriptures invariably provide evidence that God provides and nourishes us in excess. We are never to live in poverty–that is unless we create those conditions through our own sins. Recall that Israel had all the crops and fertile land it could want. Only its rebellion and transgressions against God opened up the possibility for foreign powers to sweep in and plunder their riches and subject their people to foreign rule. The fact is that our faith in God can cement a great life on earth today: “Oh fear the Lord, you his holy ones, for those who fear him have no want….those who seek the Lord lack no good thing” (Psalm 34:9-10).
Another Prosperity Gospel?
