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