Live Long and Prosper

Deuteronomy 5:33 
Stay on the path that the LORD your God has commanded you to follow. Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the land you are about to enter and occupy. (NLT)

We remember the prosper piece of this scripture and hope for those prosperous times as we define prosperity in this country. Too often our hopes are so high we put all of those things we associate with prosperity on credit cards and then pray for God's help in paying them off.

Are we really so confident in His promise to give us prosperous lives or are we just greedy? Do we just want all that our parents had and more sooner than we should? Do we just feel entitled to it?

Let's look at the sentence preceding the one on prosperity. This is the condition, the IF. First we have to stay on the path Father God has commanded us to follow. Too often the path we are following is one of our own making having nothing to do with that which God has for us.

So then how do we justify the expectation of prosperity by God's hand when we live by our own plan? We live thinking it is by our own hands that we will succeed and then ask God to prosper us.

Isn't it about time we listened to God and let Holy Spirit guide us into the truth about the path meant for us? Then we will see prosperity in ways better than finances.