success or Success

God has been teaching me a lot lately, He teach's me more about myself every day. He spoke something into my heart about a week ago that has really stuck in the front of my mind. The word one my heart is success, the meaning of success, or what it looks like to be successful, or even the idea of success in my life.

I just recently turned twenty four and every year around the time of my birthday i have a tenancy to evaluate my placement in life, my success, my failures, myself. In our world success is having that six figure job, having that bachelors degree, having nice things and all the other "things" that make us successful. True success isn't about the job, its not about the schooling, its not about the friends or any other social status.

God measures success in a completely different world then we live in or even understand, there are no things in this world there is God and his one true love, us. To be successful in the eyes of God is to carry out the ministry he has created you to do.

Paul wrote: "But my life is worth nothing to me unless i use it for finishing the

work assigned me by the Lord Jesus - the work of telling others the

Good News about the wonderful grace of God."

Acts 20:24

Nothing else in all the world is more important, nothing else even comes close to completing what God has created us for. Its easy to get caught up in the success of man, but what truly matters is to finish the work that God has molded our lives for. God does not desire to see how much we can learn, how much wealth we can gain or even how famous we can become, he wants us to see how much we can love, how close we can grow to Him, how much we can give away, and how many people learn of his grace.

At the end of Paul's life he was able to say:

"As for me, my life has already been poured out as an offering to God. The time of my death is near. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and i have remained faithful." 2Timothy 4:6,7

Stepping into Faith. Walking through the Sea

I read psalms:77 this morning and it really proved me to chase after God and his plans for my life. For most of the psalm it is quite depressing but it was the last to verses that did it for me.

"Your road led through the sea,

your pathway through mighty waters,

a pathway that no one knew was there!

You led your people along that road like a flock of sheep,

with Moses and Aaron as shepherds." (psalms 77:19,20)

God truly does have us take the path less traveled, none of those people had any idea that there freedom would rely completely on their ability to walk across the sea floor. With God any path can be traveled, even the path that in our eyes isn't even there. Too often we question Gods path for us, when all that he wants is action; he will handle the rest. So lets not question our placement or Gods plan for us, lets us act. Let us remember these verses and remember that no path or plan of God can be stopped if we are willing to act, not any thing created by man or God.