Having just sent in my quarterly estimated taxes, these words seem appropriate:
On I Peter 3:10-11 --
"Q. Whether may we pray for riches, and great prosperity, or not?
"A. We have no such Warrant in Gods Word, neither commandment, promise, nor example; of moderation we have, as in Jacob and Augur: And for great wealth without admirable grace, its exceeding dangerous: Its hard for a rich man to enter into Heaven, not many such are called; to be thus is no mark of a childe of God: If God send it, we are not to refuse it, but to be thankful, and crave great grace to govern it, and our hearts therewithal, but we have more cause to fear it, then desire it; but for competent prosperity we may pray, yet conditionally, because being an outward thing, we know not but it may prove hurtful, we are to leave it to God that knoweth whats best for us; there with we must also crave the right use thereof, and to be bettered thereby."
-- John Rogers 435-436.
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