assumptions.

There is a popular misconception that financial blessing is an indication of right standing before God.  This leads to the judgement that people who are poor are thus outside of right relationship with God.  The assumption is made that when poor people are saved, their financial problems will be cured.  Those who hold this belief isolate people who are poor by placing unfounded judgment on their spirituality by observing their physical conditions.  This lie, that poverty is a judgement of God as a result of broken relationship with God, strips away compassion and denies our friends who are poor God’s love and mercy [that can be shown through us]

-Simple Spirituality, Chris Heuertz