The world\u2019s standard of success should come with a required warning label in neon lights: EXTREMELY SEDUCTIVE AND ADDICTIVE.<\/strong> CAUTION: this will cost you dearly as well as those you dearly love.<\/p>\nYet I still fall for it. I\u2019m so prone to drift. I\u2019m so prone to wrap my self-worth around what I do rather than who I am\u2026and whose I am. I\u2019m so inclined to view life as an emergency while racing up some imaginary mountain.<\/p>\n
Look to the left in the photo above – I had an epiphany in that very drive-thru one day. I raced through the transaction of treasures not fully present – my mind in pursuit of far too much. When I arrived home and pulled into the garage, I discovered the drive-thru tube still in my lap. \u201cWhat the L?!?\u201d<\/p>\n
Nothing that God\u2019s Word can\u2019t recover and cover. His life-changing Truth can beautifully transform our view of success and our stuff and how we spend our time. NEWS FLASH: NONE OF IT\u2019S OURS. WE ARE SIMPLY STEWARDS FOR A TIME.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cIt all comes from your hand, and all of it belongs to you.\u201d<\/em> 1 Chronicles 29: 16<\/p>\n\u201cI will not let the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the Word making it unfruitful.\u201d<\/em> Mark 4:19<\/p>\n\u201cYours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, FOR EVERYTHING IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS YOURS.<\/strong> Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.\u201d<\/em> 1 Chronicles 29: 11-13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this month of March, I couldn\u2019t help but reflect on the blind march towards success. Do you relentlessly pursue the American Dream? What does your vision of success look like? What\u2019s it costing you? More importantly, who do you want to be when you get there? The pursuit of success, as the world defines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werockinc.com\/weROCK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}