What if you could choose between poverty and wealth—one or the other with no middle ground? Surely most would pick the latter. Yet, facing circumstances, and believing they define our prospects, most of us ultimately settle for something in between. It sometimes seems enough just to make ends meet. Yet if you were given a choice between lack and prosperity and could settle for only one or the other, wouldn't the choice be in favor of prosperity? You can make that choice, and see it expressed in your life.
Yet it's important to consider deeply what wealth really is. Wasn't Christ Jesus pointing to it when he said: "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?... But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matt. 6:25, 33
Here the Master set forth a profound declaration of cause and effect. He told us that real wealth is to be found only in God. In other words, wealth is actually spiritual.
