On Success

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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 3:88Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, (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