Created to Prosper

...a note of introduction Every age has its own definition of prosperity.  For my teenage daughter,         prosperity means someday owning a great big house with room for the large dogs we won’t let her have in our small suburban back yard.  For my parents, prosperity meant being able to provide their children with a     college education—something they did not receive.  For my grandparents, prosperity meant owning a house or being able to adequately feed and provide for their family.  In the days of Genesis prosperity was measured by the size of your flock or your crop or your family.  By human standards the family of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was prosperous.  Ahh, but here is the interesting part, God measures prosperity quite differently than humans do.  God looks at us with our human measuring sticks and knows that those are not the things we need at all.  We need to draw close to the only one who can give us an eternal destiny.  We need to stand up for the things that are right.