- Joshua 1:8 (NKJV) This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
In many ways “success” is a new word. Generations of people lived out their lives with no concept of being a “success”. Their lives were more about survival. They lived a life of service. They served the land, their overlord, their families and their God. Yet if history is accurate at all, in the midst of their labors and the inevitable difficulties of life the countless generations of humans that have lived did so experiencing love and joy, fun and feasting, and finished their lives with the hope of Heaven.
My point is this: In spite of all the emphasis on being a success during the last hundred years or so; I’m not sure we’re any better for it. The drive to succeed requires in many cases that we succeed at someone else’s expense. We push and drive ourselves to meet company expectations, deadlines, profit margins and quarterly goals; all so we can be a “success.”
But at what cost? I know of far too many successful people with loads of “stuff” that lost their family, their faith and their hope of a better future. I suspect that being a success is overrated. One hundred years from now all that is going to matter whether you are a “success” or not is where you spend eternity and who you took with you.
If success is a must for you, at least succeed with God’s help and approval; and then you can be assured that you succeeded in the things that really matter.
“The Bible never calls us to succeed apart from God’s help. Our success always has a built-in faith element to it. Without faith, we aren’t going to receive anything from God (James 1:6-8). Without faith, we do not access God’s help.” _Charles Stanley, Success God’s Way, pg. 200
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