Thoughts and Other Things

I was sitting quietly in my seat waiting for the service to begin when three year old David came to sit next to me. He hadn’t done so in the longest time, so it was a sweet surprise. I say hello and he says he’s fine. Then he starts flooding me with all these questions. Where’s your house? Where’s your car? What colour is it? Where’s the other pastor? Where’s his car? (he has an obsession with cars). I felt so caught with that first question? Why would he ask me that? Is it so obvious that I shouldn’t be living at home that a three year old could see it? I finally sheepishly replied that I don’t have my own house, I stay at home with my parents at such and such a place. He moved on to the next question. Before I knew it, the conversation was over, and off he went to ask for sweets from another lady. It is only when I had a conversation with his mother that I realised how I’d misunderstood him. She told me how he refers to his home as his house, she’d tried explaining the diffe...

And so we are back at that place again, where everyone is ‘freshly’ motivated to set new goals and pursue new ventures, all being done in the hopes of making a success out of one’s life. I want to share a secret with you about success. Nope this is not a secret to success, but a key to proper understanding about success, which will ultimately lead you to it. In today’s world, we’ve wrongly defined success by judging it by popularity and the possessions one has. It’s about where you take your vacations, the area you live in, the cars you drive, who you know, who you’re married to, the amount of people who like and follow you and how much you have in your bank account. When you say successful, we automatically relate it to a luxurious life. This judgement is not only unbiblical, but it is also untrue. Think about it. I think we all know (of) someone who has made it to the top by fraud or corruption, by stepping on and over others, by gross injustice and manipulation. We all admit ...