What if I told you that Jesus preached a prosperity gospel?  He unabashedly told His followers that God wanted them to be rich, spiritually rich: “[The fool] is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God” (Luke 12:21).  What does it mean to be “rich toward God”?  It means that we recognize the inestimable worth of God.  It means that we live as if nothing in the world is as valuable to us as He is.  It means that we joyfully count the cost of our discipleship as nothing compared to the value of obtaining the Kingdom of God, the pearl of great price.  It means that Jim Elliott was right, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”  It means that we are always willing to take our next step of faith to follow Him.