“Pick up your cross and follow me.” were his instructions. That sounds like poor and suffering to me.
For example..@ Salvation,St_Thomas_Aquinas and others.
“Pick up your cross and follow me.” were his instructions. That sounds like poor and suffering to me.
Do YOU live in poverty? Perhaps you do. I have and am close to it now but comfortable and happy. BUT I have Faith. I ask God to show me the way to prosperity. However I submit to His plan.
@laweeks
Oprah would love that....and,... Nothing like a 10.5 million dollar home to feel good in.
What does Oprah have to do with this discussion? As to living in a nice, expensive home...
Class envy? My family and I have been happy to live in a hovel. Heated with wood and kerosene. No electric, gas or at times water. I asked God for a better place and he answered.
Don't get me wrong. As a family we worked to make things better. We prayed and asked God for his Guidance and Blessing. He answered.
We COULD go back to the old place though. Would that make you happy and me more of a Christian?
@Romulus
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Kinda sounds like prosperity to me.
We are all Blessed. We are Thankful for that and all of His Grace.
I am at work but I will leave you with one of my personal observations that may or may not be pertinent.
The Measure of a Man.
The measure of a Man isn't how he looks, or speaks, or his wealth or standing in his community.
The Measure of a Man is how he applies his God given Strengths to:
Provide for his family
Help his neighbors
And take care of himself.
When he does these things to the best of his ability he is a Man in God's eyes.