3:00 AM Marginalia: The Blank Check That Bounced I grew up hearing Philippians 4:19 as a blank check. "God will supply every need." That's how it was told. Claim it. Speak it. And the money appears. Faith as transaction. God as delivery service. But that's not what happened. The check bounced. Again and again. Three a.m., sitting with it. The question won't leave. If God wants me rich, why am I counting coins for bread? If He didn't create me for lack, why is the cupboard still light? And the answer I was given? Your faith is small. Not the interpretation. Not the context. Me. That's what prosperity theology does. It makes God's silence feel like favoritism — like He's talking, just not to you. So I went looking for someone in the Bible who was close to God and wealthy. I found a few. Abraham. Job. Solomon. But I never found wealth as the proof of closeness. Jesus told people to give it away. Paul — who wrote 13...