Become a Christian! Your life will drastically improve! This feel good message might be good for lining the pockets of charlatans, but Biblically, it is worthless. When you become a Christian, there is no guarantee anything about your life will change. In fact, faith is often tested and refined by trials and tribulations, so it’s more likely your life will get worse as a direct result of becoming a Christian. Your employers might persecute you, your friends might leave you, even your own family might turn against you as you pursue a new life in Christ.
But the Bible tells us not to be concerned with these things. Our connection to this world is brief, to the point of being almost trivial. Obviously God still cares about us. He even wept when Lazarus died, knowing full well He was about to raise him back to life. There is nothing that can happen to you that God does not care about. But at the same time, there is nothing that can happen to you that God cannot use for good (Romans 8:28). Now, if God wants to improve your life, that’s entirely His prerogative. He can prosper you, or He can lead you to (and through) disaster. Wealth and prosperity are not the point of this life. Therefore, while it’s not necessarily wrong to desire wealth, it’s not worth focusing on. The only wealth you should worry about is the wealth of Heaven (Matthew 6:19-21). In fact, if you become too focused on wealth, your salvation might even be in jeopardy (Matthew 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25).
It’s time to stop telling people that their lives will change if they become Christians, or that if they’re poor they don’t have enough faith, or any other lie in that category, because those lies are from the pit of Hell. Instead, preach this glorious truth: whatever your lot in life, Jesus has great love for you, great enough to forgive your every sin, and absorb that punishment Himself. Through His wounds, you are healed and can have a true relationship with God forever. That is the greatest wealth of all.