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What Success Is Not.

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What Success Is Not

Tuesday 13th January 

Text: 1 Samuel 15: 10-23
Key Verse: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. Proverbs 10: 2
The quest for success in life is universal. However, success in the eyes of man may be a failure in the eyes of God. What supposed to be a success or victory testimony for king Saul became an issue of rejection and regret because he violated the commandment of God to annihilate the Amalekites. Saul’s victory celebration would have known no bounds if he had done it as commanded. He pushed God, the Author and Finisher of success, away in his zeal to do exploits for the same God.
The story in our text is a vivid depiction of the kind of success that is rampant and celebrated in the world today. In our world of corruption and decadence, the end justifies the means. The people of the world are out to get whatever they want irrespective of how they get it. Political appointments are seen as divine opportunities to strike while the iron is hot. A highly placed individual who climbs down from his position and did not loot government treasury enough to establish himself is considered a fool. His family members will fault him and insult him; his community will jettison him, and his society will nickname him, ‘Opportunity-miss-road’. You either ‘make it’ by all means or suffer rejection by your community. Civil servants, public servants and businessmen and women who have worked in financially buoyant organizations but did not craftily enrich themselves are seen as failures.
God views success differently from the way the world sees it. Success is not just about your achievements in life, it is not about how much money, the fleet of cars, housing estates and even aero planes you have. Your genuine success has its foundation in your seeking first the kingdom of God and its righteousness. What the world goes after for success is what God calls additives to godliness. Go for the fear of God first and He will bless you with your desired success testimony.

Thought For The Day: Achievements without Godliness is failure.

Song For The Day: Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and Its righteousness…

Bible Reading For The Day: Genesis 42-43 
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