God's Definition of Success vs. Culture's

Close your eyes for a minute and imagine that you’re continuing down your current path with your current definition of success. You see it? Stay with me. You keep working as hard as you’re working. And you keep prioritizing the things you’re prioritizing. What’s your life look like in say 5 years? If you’re anything like I WAS, imagining your future can be underwhelming at best.So, what if I told you that success is the opposite of what you have been taught? What if I showed you that everything you believe about achievement and fulfillment is faulty?The older I get and the longer I live, the more I realize that culture’s way of success is simply foolishness. That the direction of the majority is actually the opposite of maturity and what God wants. That what is popular is almost never superior, and trendy does not equal better.The world’s “advice” will often take more than you’re willing to give and leave you in a worse place than you started. For example, most people are in debt, most people watch too much television, most people look at things they shouldn’t, most people drink too much and don’t take care of themselves, most people don’t have a retirement plan, most people get divorced, and most people have softened their morality or beliefs because culture said they should...Don’t believe me? Look at what a person who is “woke” in today’s culture is accepting as ok. It’s not. I don’t want to be like most people, maybe a long time ago I did, but not anymore. Do you?“Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"1 Corinthians 3:18-19 Did I get your attention?Be Nice, Grace Wins