Success – A Biblical Perspectiveનમૂનો

Day 4 - What Does it Matter?

Titus 2;11-14 - II Corinthians 5:17-20 - II Corinthians 5:10

OK, so this is our end game. We run our race and then we go home to our Lord. This is where Christian success is measured, at The Judgment Seat of Christ. This isn’t a judgment of salvation, our trust in Jesus settles that, it is a judgment of what we did with our salvation. II Corinthians 5:20 tells us that we have been granted the title and privilege of Ambassadors for Christ. In God’s plan, each of us is an Ambassador to the place in life, time, and location that we occupy and that our “context” provides. As an Ambassador on earth represents the values and interests of the nation that selects and sends them off to represent them for a season we are sent to represent the Kingdom of God on the earth for a lifetime. Too many of us don’t connect the dots that scripture provides to link our lives with our eternal purpose or even to consider that we have one. We can waste our lives chasing things that have only value on earth and none in heaven. As Francis Chan says “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” Success for us is succeeding in the things that truly matter.

As we close our discussion how will you answer the question “My definition of success is to ................................”