SUCCESS: FIGHTING TO THE END

“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” 2 Tim 4:7 A notable author, Brian Tracy, authored a book titled ‘Success Is A Journey”, even without reading the content of that book, I agreed with that thought. There are many which see success as a station, a place or an office; those sets only see and perceive it as a position, but success transcends being ‘positional’. Some other could see it as clutching some laurels or medals, how reliable is that one while we abide in the world where record breaking is of big interest. True success is not a physical phenomenon. In retrospective, SECTION ONE of this writing says SUCCESS is about locating where we belong in the creation of God, falling in there and doing it with a landmark distinction. SECTION TWO deals with SUCCESS as living to serve, seeing service as an end to the purpose for which we are born, to touch and change lives and re-write history of lives and of the world. SUCCESS in the THIRD PART sees it from the standpoint of maintaining a life of godliness and that of exemplary integrity with explanation that, it’s the godly principles which supports our lives as being instrumental to true success. Sinners don’t enjoy the best of God and God is not God of sinners. Finally, in this part I’d say, SUCCESS is holding unto those things afore-said till the last lap on the earth. Earth is not the final; earthly accolades and achievements are not end-points. "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and CONTINUETH therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed" James 1:2 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36 In simplicity of language, success is a journey, and it takes the whole life to get there. Here we prepare for it, how it shall be. So you can’t tell me that someone succeeds in this life and has no records in the book of life, and yet reckon the same as being successful. How come? Here we are only preparing to succeed, we are not there yet! That’s what it means to ultimately succeed. Make sure you don’t only succeed on earth in the definition of man. All those three fore mostly discussed are of definition of men, but doing them to the very end, will determine the definition of God. He that truly succeeds is the one that makes it to Heaven. All achievements will vanish of that man that loses his soul to the consuming inferno of hell. This is why I indirectly said earlier that defining success leaving God outside is akin to raw insanity. All that we are in for on the earth is just a preparation towards the beginning of the beginning that has no end. If you are stumbling here on earth, make sure you are standing back at every falling. 1. As you are setting goals make sure they are not infringing on the DIVINE PURPOSE but rather aligned to it, that way ‘success’ will come to you because God will be pleased with you! 2. Allied to that, goals setting, aspiration and ambitions, devoid of OFFERING, SERVING and BLESSING others is as feeding the ‘self’ which will later be doomed in hell. Service is the essence of divine purpose. 3. Relatedly, laws of success revolve around GODLY LIVING. The best way to be a success is to live in the light of the God’s thoughts as contained in the Word. 4. SUCCESS AT LAST is of CONTINUITY in those afore-said to the very last. If at all you wish to give up, make sure you get to Heaven first as I once quipped. That is the peak of all successes. Never ever give up! (Folks in their number hardly know what it appears like to truly succeed; however, I believe that you and I rather do know better and better now by the day. Thanks for lending your readership to these notes. Go and act what you know. God bless you!)