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A Good Success By Joseph Akinrinola
Everyone desires success. God wants His children to be successful. While there is success, God wants His children to have genuine success. It goes to say there is success that is no good if we don’t have what the Bible calls good success. The following scriptures highlight the clarity and the difference between the two. “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1:8 KJV) The blessing of the LORD makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it. (Proverbs 10:22 NKJV) Thus, the following are a few attributes of genuine success: 1. It follows God’s pattern of achievement. God operates by principle. While people are only interested in the result, God is concerned about how you got the result. This is akin to how a mathematics teacher is not merely interested in the students getting the answer, but how they arrived at the answer. Therefore, God’s kind of success must follow the pattern of righteousness and honesty. This is when you could term such a success as good. Getting success at the expense of others or fraudulently getting a breakthrough is not a genuine success.
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2. It glorifies God. What do you have that you are not given? (1 Corinthians 4:7) Since it is God that gave you the breakthrough odds, you are to return all the glory to Him. Using your prosperity to glorify God is acknowledging Him as the giver of such blessing. Glorifying God means using your position and prosperity for godly purposes that benefit not only you, but others. Jesus told us about the parable of the rich fool. (Luke 12:16-21) The problem with the man was not because he was strategic. It was not because he was planning for the future. After all, wisdom dictates your plan for tomorrow. However, he never acknowledged God as the giver of his success or included others in his plan for tomorrow. You should not forget the admonition of Apostle James on planning our life based on God’s permission. (James 4:13-15) 3. It draws the beneficiary closer to God. Most times, people tend to redirect their attention away from God for their prosperity once they achieved what they wanted. A story was once told about this lifestyle. A couple was consistently coming to a church program, prayer, vigil, and counseling while they are trusting God for a child. They stop coming once the child came. After a while, the pastor visited them to ask why they were no longer consistent in church. In response, the husband asked the pastor if a patient stays in the hospital after receiving his treatment? The man told the pastor they came to church because they were looking for a child. Now that they got what they were looking for, why should they continue to come to church?
