Do I Really Need God To Succeed In Life?
I once stumbled on an online discourse on success and I thought to share my thoughts here. Everyone wants to succeed in life, for Christians however, the temptation is there, either to leave everything to God or to try to take things into our own hands. When it comes to the subject of achieving success, there are usually two schools of thought. 1: Believe in yourself, the power to succeed lies in you. 2: Trust in God, only Him can give you success. WHICH IS RIGHT? Here's my submission on the matter. It depends on the context. Both could be right or wrong. There is a sense in which you must believe in yourself and step out in the strength of that belief. In doing this, you put away all doubt and defeat mentality and believe you can achieve success. Conversely, there is a place of trusting in God for everything. Knowing that without Him you can do nothing, and achieve nothing of true worth. Someone has rightly said that you must work as if you will not pray and then pray as if you wi