My thoughts have been exercised recently about what it means to be a success, since success in the material and financial world [seems] so important in our day—even to [some of] those who are dear to [us]. As believers, we should have as our object the Lord Jesus Christ, as Paul did and as he expressed in Philippians 3:8, “That I may win Christ.” “Lay hold on eternal life” is another exhortation that [we need] to live by. May God give all His own grace to live in the light of eternity and not to have, as a goal, a life of comfort and ease [success] in this scene.
J. Kulp