From Wisdom Quotes on Facebook … “Success is what we want; faithfulness is what God wants. God will not always ask us if we were successful in what we were assigned to do, but He will always ask if we were faithful.”
Have faith. It’s a universal truth, no matter your religion. It’s an inherent gift, if we accept it and live it.
At times I have definitely let “success” take priority in my life, and it hasn’t been a bad thing to want to achieve, to advance my life and career. It has helped me grow and provide. It has helped me become more than I was, and a focus on succeeding has kept me contributing with quality, in lots of different ways.
That said, it is faith that I have found deepening in my life. Is it because I am aging? Closer to mortality? Learning more about what is truly important? Maybe a little but there is no disconnect between wanting success and being faithful to Him. The two sides of my life are one, because success is defined in the secular sense AND in the spiritual sense. And we know there are many ways to define success.
I pray that I remain faithful to my mission, to the tasks that He assigned to me and no one else. They come bidden and unbidden, and they offer me new chances to prove that I am who He wants me to be … friend, husband, father, brother, godson, worker, counselor, writer and on and on. No matter the level of success I have in each of my roles, I have faith I am on the right path, because He shares that blessing with me. What God wants, He reveals … every day.
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