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Hard for some to believe but the Bible has instruction for everything. Success, everyone wants success. Books by the thousands have been written with the sole purpose of telling us how to accomplish that feat. Many are very good and people who have done it offer very good advice.
Following in the footsteps of others may be profitable but in the end, it’s up to you to do the work, not to mention your belief in yourself and the ability to take measured risk. Joshua 1:8 offers us a simple albeit difficult formula for personal success. From the King James: “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein, for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Starting at the end of that verse we notice that we make our own selves successful. Thou shalt make, we do the work. The work is keeping the law of God continually before you. Read it out loud not once but every day. Humans seem to have short memories when it comes to things that contradict their wisdom. We wake, pray, and remind ourselves of who we are and who we are not. We’ll fish out who we are, what kind of metal we’re made of, but who we aren’t is important; we are not God.
So morning and night we read the Word of God so we may remember to keep on the straight and narrow path to success. But it’s also to help us remember who we are. The Bible makes it abundantly clear where our priorities should be. Yes, we will prosper if we obey His Word. On the other hand, we’re reminded that we are like grass or a whisp of smoke, here today and gone tomorrow.
Our greatest success is a relationship with the Creator of the universe. All of our treasures can’t be kept by a blade of grass or puff of smoke. Our biggest success is to stand before God and hearing the words well done good and faithful servant. As the verse says, we are to observe what’s going on around us. Our lives are fragile. We need a deep relationship with God. That is all we need.