Inspiration for Your Week #6

Good morning friends, and happy Monday! 😊 I think it’s safe to say that we all want to be successful in our lives. I wonder, though, how we define success? God’s definitions can be so different from ours. While we might naturally consider success to be a comfortable home, a good job, and a wonderful family, it is quite possible to have none of those things and still be successful in God’s eyes. True success will last for eternity!

When I read this quote, I thought about missionaries who have labored for years and have only a very small result to show for it. Although the world and even some in the church might not call them successful, I believe that God would say very differently as they quietly, faithfully serve Him. God measures success based on faithfulness, not visible results. The only approval that matters is His!

The success of life is not measured by the years we live, but by loyalty to Jesus Christ and service in the Gospel; the might of our faith, the healthiness of the soul, the greatness of the heart, and the intensity of the light shining from a character radiant with the presence and glory of Jesus Christ. Are we every day trying to make our lives rich, radiant, successful, and certain of reward, through earnest effort to bring others into the possession of the blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ?–J.C. McFeeters, Sketches of the Covenanters

If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour (John 12:26).

May the Lord bless you as you serve Him!

Blessings,

Naomi