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Day 26 – Prosperous 2 Chronicles 27 There are a couple ways one can be prosperous, financially and through your character. We all want to be financially prosperous, but seldom obtain it. Few consider character prosperity. Character prosperity is your reputation as a person. We all want a good reputation. Our parents want us to be around those of a good reputation so we learn from them, and not fall into the ways of unseemly characters. As history has shown us, financial prosperity is fleeting. Here today and gone tomorrow. However your character and how people view you lasts a lifetime and is what people remember when you pass into eternity. Jotham was a good king. He prepared his ways before the Lord and did not do as his father before him and enter into the temple to burn incense. He learned from his father’s mistakes and those who reigned before him and made up his mind not to follow in their footsteps, but to take the lessons of a godly life from their examples and cast the rest away. Many people will try to lead us down the primrose path to destruction. We must consider the harm it will do to our lives, and turn away from it. Solomon gave advice to his son regarding a person’s bad reputation. Proverbs 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. (KJV) Jesus showed us the two paths available to us. Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it. (KJV) Jotham lived his life on the straight and narrow path. However, he could not convince the people of Judah to do the same. We all know people who are on the path of destruction. They could be members of your family, or people you come in contact with daily through work and social activities. The most we can hope for is that our lives will be a living testimony of God’s presence in our lives. Jotham prepared his heart for the Lord. He did that which was right in God’s eyes. Because he did so God prospered him financially and through his character. Through his character we ascertain he was a builder – building cities, and he was a mighty man – going to war and being successful as a warrior. Everything Jotham put his hand to prospered, because his heart was right with God. We too can have the same prosperity as Jotham. All we need to do is set our hearts on God, and do what is right in His eyes. God will do the rest. Let’s pray: Father, thank you for prospering me in my service to You. Guide my footsteps so they will always remain on the narrow path leading to life, and not wander onto the broad path of destruction. In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen. Copyright © 7 January 2016 by Valerie Jean Routhieaux All scripture is King James Version, edited by me into common English. Image courtesy of Pixabay