So here I sit at 3 am writing on my blog. My sleep schedule is so out of whack from the hospital.

I sit contemplating how we carelessly talk about God’s blessings. The funny thing, well not really that funny, is how we always equate Being blessed by God with prosperity and ease. I hear American Christians say we are blessed to live in this land where we are free to worship. Which implies Christians in India, China or other persecuted lands are not blessed. Which is a faulty conclusion since the Church is growing there better than Here. Did Paul not state in Athens:

26 From one man He has made every nation of men to live all over the earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live, 27 so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us Acts 17: 26 & 27 (HCB)

It seems that prosperity gospel has influenced are theology. Let us recall God’s real blessing is salvation not economic multiplication.