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Success in life is good. To achieve success in life the way that God intended is better. There is a wrong way and a right way one can achieve success in this life. The wrong way often times offers the attainment of success in a much faster turnaround time, although it doesn’t promise any kind of a lasting quality, only a temporary one.
The right way of achieving success can be a little bit more obscure, laden with uncertainties. The right way of achieving success doesn’t have much luster or lure to it’s credit, but it does promise you a good success that will be never ending.
In Joshua 1:8 God instructs the newfound leader of the nation of Israel that if he makes it a daily habit of reflecting and meditating on God’s word, and then couple that with a personal observation to do and honor His word, then and only then will God guarantee him “Good” success.
This life principle, “What goes up, must first go down” can be considered an oxymoron of sorts. This is not something that is taught in the institutions of higher learning. Neither is it celebrated in the boardrooms across corporate America. This is something that you inadvertently encounter as you travel down that meandering pathway of life. In fact, this life’s principle is somewhat inconspicuous. It is rarely coveted and often shunned, but if embraced wholeheartedly, it will yield the most rewarding experience possible.
In I Samuel 30:3, David was probably at the lowest point in his life, ready to throw in the proverbial towel, but something happened. The light of God’s glory peered through the ominous clouds that had enshrouded David’s life. This divine intervention caused him once again to hope in God. Yes the storms of life had leveled David to the ground, but this glimmer of hope gave him enough strength to pick himself up and look to God as his source. The bible says, “but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.”
The Lord enabled him to recover all that the enemy had stolen from him. And that was only the beginning. Eventually he would rise to the highest office in the land to sit on the throne as the king of Israel.
It’s interesting the pathway that David’s life took. I’m sure when the prophet Samuel showed up at his family home to anointed him as the future king of Israel. He probably didn’t envision his life taking the route that it took. I’m sure that he didn’t see himself as a fugitive on the run, fighting alongside heathen nations just to make a living. However, all that he experience was preparing him for the day of elevation to sit on the throne as the King of Israel and that God would establish his throne eternally.
In short, “What goes up, must first go down.”
