Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed by Childers Alisa

Author:Childers, Alisa [Childers, Alisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781496455673
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2022-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

THE POVERTY OF PROSPERITY

Médine’s harrowing story represents the level of adversity that many people in the world have endured throughout history. It may seem shocking to those of us who eat three meals a day and have access to clean water, clothes, shoes, shelter, and bug spray, but until more modern times and the rise of Western civilization, life was pretty hard for everyone. Christians expected hardships. They assumed that even though this life was fraught with suffering, they had a God who walked with them in this world, offering a future hope of eternal bliss in the next. But something happened in recent history that tossed the narrative upside down. We got rich. We became affluent and confident. We no longer needed to depend on God every single second of every day because we had coats to keep us warm and cars to drive us to the jobs that earned us money to spend on groceries, clothes, and modern medicine. These are all good things. I’m thankful for them—especially modern medicine and the invention of anesthesia. Can we all just take a moment and thank the good Lord for anesthesia?

But there is a certain poverty that arises out of prosperity. We tend to forget the real purpose of life. Remember what that is? To worship God and enjoy him forever. We are made in his image, after all. The closer we are to him, the more truly happy we will be. But when we have a veritable smorgasbord of comforts and possessions to distract us from our true spiritual need, we have to make a conscious effort to remind ourselves of how dependent we are on God. This is why it is not always his highest goal to make us comfy and happy on earth. As we’ll see, trials are a gift.

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