God wills prosperity with justice. As John V. Taylor has pointed out so beautifully, the biblical norm for material possessions is “sufficiency.”17 Proverbs 30:8–9 is a marvelous summary: “Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.”
