Check out article on CNN.com examining the prosperity gospel, or in other words, that God rewards his faithful with both spiritual and financial gifts. It opens with a discussion of Jesus’ financial portfolio.

Rev. C. Thomas Anderson, senior pastor of the Living Word Bible Church in Mesa, Arizona, says Jesus couldn’t have been poor because he received lucrative gifts — gold, frankincense and myrrh — at birth. The article goes on to say:

Jesus had to be wealthy because the Roman soldiers who crucified him gambled for his expensive undergarments. Even Jesus’ parents, Mary and Joseph, lived and traveled in style, he says. “Mary and Joseph took a Cadillac to get to Bethlehem because the finest transportation of their day was a donkey,” says Anderson. “Poor people ate their donkey. Only the wealthy used it as transportation.”

All this leading to the question: can we be humble even when blessed with material wealth?