Do You Want To Be Successful?

It is not possible, from a worldly perspective, to portray the ministry of the Teacher from Nazareth as anything but unsuccessful. Ridiculed by his country’s leaders, and rejected by most of its people, he was deserted at the end even by those who had given him their loyalty. His lack of worldly goods was emphasized at his death by the squalid gambling of a band of foreign mercenaries over his last remaining possession. He died a felon’s death on a public gibbet, with the taunts of his enemies ringing in his failing ears. Yet this man had heard, not once but twice, a voice from heaven proclaim “This is my beloved son.” And, the inspired writer assures us, the time will surely come when every knee shall bow to him and every tongue confess that he has been given a name which is above every name.

Here is a success worth having, which the Teacher will share with those who believe in him and overcome to the end.