“First of all, every time you begin a good work, you must pray to him most earnestly to bring it to perfection.” (RB: Prolologue: 4)
. . . You can do it!
But is that true? It doesn’t matter how much resolve or determination we muster up. It doesn’t matter how much knowledge we discover, or what technological marvels we invent. Six thousand years of history has irrefutably proven that mankind is incapable of solving its problems. In fact, mankind’s problems keep getting worse. . . .
Why doesn’t all our knowledge, plus this can-do spirit, solve our problems? Why do so many people go through life chasing wealth, and even gaining it—only to end up depressed and unhappy? Why do so many find real success hard to define, let alone apprehend?
The answer is that mankind is missing the vital key to true success.
“People will ignore all their lives any idea of divine guidance and help—yet if one should find himself on a foodless and waterless raft after a shipwreck in mid-ocean, it is remarkable how quickly he would begin to believe there really is a living God!” wrote Herbert W. Armstrong, in his booklet The Seven Laws of Success. “In last-resort desperation most people will cry out to Him whom they have ignored, disobeyed and set at naught all their lives.
“Wouldn’t it seem axiomatic that, if there is a compassionate beneficent Creator standing ready and willing to give us emergency help as a last resort, it would have been more sensible to have sought His guidance and help all along? Yet some have acquired wealth, lived luxuriously, and then, suddenly losing all, turned finally to God in their economic distress. Others have committed suicide. Few, it seems, will ever rely on their Maker and life-Sustainer until they feel helpless and in desperate need. Even then the motive too often is selfish.”
The all-important key to true success is to rely on God!
. . .We can and must have goals, be educated, healthy, driven, resourceful and determined, but if we don’t have that missing ingredient for success—God showing us what to strive for, what to set our hearts upon, how to get along with Him and with others, how to conduct business—we will never find lasting success. You will reach the end of the road and be left wondering what the rat race was all about and whether any of it was worth it.
If you feel that you are lacking purpose in life, know that there is a reason that God created you!
Robert Morley
September 1, 2009 | Excerpt from theTrumpet.com
