To Prosper and be in Health (3 John 2)

In this excellent short piece, William Jay tells us what true biblical prosperity and health are. We don’t want to be like those who have “so much sail and so little ballast” to use Jay’s analogy, in other words, those who have too much temporal prosperity and not enough grace to stabilise them.

 

From the conclusion, Jay exhorts us, “Let us therefore examine our wishes. Let us regulate them with grace. Let us seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Let us ask for no more of temporal things than we can bear—ever praying for our friends and ourselves, that we may prosper and be in health even as our souls prosper.”