Prosperity Question

One of the Bible reading patterns I'm practicing on my sabbatical is the 30 Days through Psalms & Proverbs plan that Billy Graham popularized.  Every day I'm reading 5 Psalms and 1 Proverbs so in a month's time I will have worked through both books.  My attention was drawn to Psalm 4:6 this morning:  "Many, Lord, are asking, 'Who will bring us prosperity?'  Let the light of your face shine on us." 

What a powerful verse for these economically challenging times.  Many are asking the prosperity question.  Too few are praying the Psalmist's prayer:  Let the light of your face shine on us!  This summer is a great opportunity to seek the light of God's face.  Only in Him do we find the source of true and everlasting prosperity!

My friend Dawn prayed that everywhere I go this summer I would see a new aspect of our Lord and Savior that I had not seen before.  Wow!  I tend to get in a rut and forget that there is so much more of our Lord to see and know. 

Today in my writing I reflected on how the Most High came to earth as the lowliest slave.  Leadership greatness, Jesus said, is following in His steps as a slave leader.  That is so not in the vision of leadership I most often see in myself and in the world I grew up in.  This book writing can be convicting!