We are much about physical well-being. How would you respond if someone greeted you saying: “I hope you’re as healthy physically as you are spiritually?”
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things
and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
III John 2
If your physical health were compared to your spiritual health, what would that say of the current state of your physical well being?
So how are you anyway – inside?
“Prosper” is a word that means to get along well, to have good success. A soul that prospers is like a fruitful branch: it draws life from its source therefore it delights in doing what it was designed to do. A branch cannot produce fruit if it’s all dried up inside.
Is your soul prospering? Are you rich toward God, drawing life from Him? Are you drawing near to Him, abiding in Him, letting His word dwell in you richly, and walking in His Spirit? Does your life reflect the infinite worth of Christ and diffuse His fragrance? That’s what you were designed for, and the Creator-Redeemer wants you to prosper in it. Here’s how:
Blessed is the man… whose delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper!
From Psalm 1