Success is defined by the WordWed Dictionary as, “An event that
accomplishes its intended purpose”.
It should be interesting for you to
know that success is synonymous with pronouns like: achiever, winner, victor
and succeeder. What a beautiful thing to be.
You can just get up and call
yourself any of those things, no one will crucify you because that is what you
have chosen to bear.
Such is when individuals are
defining success. Success in someone’s language (as in thoughts) is different
from success in another person’s language. People call their success the name
they want to call it, that does not make it right for you.
“Now godliness with contentment is
great gain”. 1 Tim 6:6.
How you should define,
measure success
First, you need to outline your
vision, after which you will check out your values (these should tilt toward
your vision though), and then consider your priority in life.
You will be able to measure your
success track records, if they amounted to what they should amount to – you may
have just been a success.
The truth is that, there is no
person (on this earth) who is totally successful. Everyone works toward being
successful, daily, due to the fact that ‘as long as one is alive, there will
always be aspirations in the heart’.
Your priority for success might be
in the area of soul winning, parenting, teaching, counseling, pastoring,
ministry, family life and so on.
According
to John Macarthur, in his work, ‘Successful
Christian Parenting
Raising Your Child
with Care, Compassion and Common Sense’, success is determined by what one
does.
If
we measure our success as parents solely by what our children become, there is
no inviolable guarantee in Scripture that we will experience absolute success
on those terms. Sometimes children raised in fine Christian families grow up to
abandon the faith. On the other hand, the Lord graciously redeems many children
whose parents are utter failures. The outcome of the child, as a factor taken
by itself, is no reliable gauge of the parents’ success.
However,
the true measure of success for Christian parents is the parents’ own
character. To the degree that we have followed God’s design for parenting, we
have succeeded as parents before God.[1]
The same applies to other aspects of
life. Your success should be seen in the light of what you are doing, and not according
to what another person has become or is doing.
from: dpccars.com
Some
relevant information you need to have
You should know, decisively, that privileges
and/or opportunities disposed to everyone differ.
All of us are not born with the same
background, we did not grow up in the same environment, we do not study the
same discipline and we are not in the same employment.
As such, our world view will be
different, our perception will not be the same and our dispositions will not be
totally correlative.
Hence, you should hold your life
together, see yourself as success and where you think you missed it – make the
necessary steps to change the situation.
There is always a second chance (if one
is alive): that second chance is always now, when you have the opportunity.
[1]MacArthur,
John: Successful Christian Parenting : Raising Your Child With Care,
Compassion, and Common Sense.
