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Real Success

This week, I was feeling stressed, overwhelmed, inadequate, and in WAY over my head. Often. I often came to the point of saying out loud (repeatedly) to the silence at work, "I can't do this." But just when I was feeling like I was failing and there was nothing I could do about it, the Lord whispered to me, "real success is different." He reminded me that real success was not measured in what quota I filled at work, or how my relationships were doing, or any of that, because sometimes that would be beyond my control. My real success in that situation was measured in my trust in the Lord and His timing. My success was measured by something I had complete control over. Something that was invisible to everyone but God and myself.

That was an important revelation to me, because I tend to measure my success in my accomplishments and the quality of my relationships, and when those things aren't working out for one reason or another, even if it's not my fault, I feel like I'm failing. But real success is measured entirely by things that we can control. That's the thing. I feel like success is always something that's between you and God. As long as you are constantly trying hard to focus on Him and always improve, even if you don't think you're succeeding, you ARE. 

God is your #1 fan. I promise you this. If we knew even a tiny fraction of the love He has for us or the degree to which He believes in us, we would be blown away. It's astonishing. It's unbelievable. It's all the lovely words and more. He not only wants us to succeed, but He believes we can. Coming from an all-wise and all-knowing Creator who cannot lie in any way, that's a pretty heavy vote of confidence. He loves us completely with a love that cannot be measured. Though it sounds cliche, I'll say it anyway: it's a love stronger than any distance. It's a love stronger than any seemingly-insurmountable obstacle. It's a love stronger than death. Taller than Everest, deeper than the Marianas Trench, and more vast than the universe. 

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