Your Best Life Now? pt 1

Turn on TBN (or has I have heard it called Twisting the Bible daily Network) and you will probably hear that if you become a Christian that all your troubles are gone. You will have wealth and health and will prosper greatly. That whatever you ask of God will be done. Basically, they teach that God is your "magic genie" and there to meet all of your worldly needs. Anyone who has opened the Bible for more than a 2 minute pick me up will realize that this is nothing near what is taught throughout. Not only that but anyone who has faced a tough trial and come out of it knowing that God and God alone was the only one pulling you through it knows that this is false.
After Jesus blinded and converted Paul on the road to Damascus the Lord came to Ananias in a vision and told him to go to Paul so that he could receive back his sight. Ananias was not to keen on really going to Paul because of the persecution he had done to the Christians, but the Lord told him "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake." If you notice there he did not say that Paul was fixing to live the life of a king and prosper greatly but that he will suffer for God. Not only there do we see that the Christian life is not a bed of roses but instead we are to die to this world and to our self.