The prosperity gospel exchanges God’s truth of promised hardship for our “truth” of entitlement to an easy life or overflowing bank account. It views God as a genie aroused by “naming it and claiming it.” But Job 1:21 tells us that God both gives and takes, and that either way, his name is to be praised. Our “truth” is that we want God’s stuff. The truth is that God has given us something better than stuff—himself.
