Success, I've learned, has little to do with the performance of God's will. Sometimes we fail because of our own stupidity or shortsightedness, and we must learn lessons from our own mistakes. Sometimes we fail because of someone else's failure, or because there was too much rain or too little rain. In these cases, there are no corrective lessons to be learned.
Success is not an automatic consequence of obedience. "A righteous man falls seven times and rises again" (Proverbs 24:16). Saint and sinner alike must take their lumps and go on to the next risk. But for the believer there is one guarantee. We have a dependable God who made a trustworthy commitment that no matter what happens -- success or failure -- he will use it for ultimate good.
Robert D. Lupton, THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM: CELEBRATING THE GOSPEL IN URBAN AMERICA
2 comments:
Very...cool.
I think that we have the wrong idea of what sucess really is. We want something that we can messure, something we can see. I work in a very very number driven place, and everything is about how well you perform. I don't think that numbers can show, or sucess can show the kind of impact that we have on peoples lives.
Besides that failure is one of the stongest lessons that we could learn in this life.
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