Success

More results from forsaking God and his commands:

Verse 29: At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

What a bleak outlook…but this is the life of those who choose to forsake the Lord and his commands.  What about those who are successful in this world?  Success is defined as something totally different in the bible from the success we see with our eyes, in the world.

If we choose to forsake God and his commands to love him with all our heart, and others as ourselves, we are choosing to live in darkness.  And without His light shining on our path and in our hearts, we fall prey to every kind of evil in the world – oppression and depression – being stolen from- and being left alone.

This is why those who do have riches cannot sleep at night for fear of losing it all.  Those who see themselves as successful by their own hand are never secure, because their strength lies in themselves and not in God’s hand.

It’s easy to gaze at others and their “success” and to compare our lives to theirs.  This is not wise.  Our success comes in bringing glory to the Lord by obeying his commands and enjoy the blessings he gives from his hand.

It’s only those blessings that are eternal, satisfying and indestructible.