What makes you think you are successful? Weigh your success here...

Success is success?  Says who? How do you measure success? Okay,  how do you think God measures success? God is not man.  His yardstick is not our yardstick.

There are two types of success and yes, it's the Scripture. I’m not talking from my head.  I will be giving you proofs. 

We have the good success (Joshua 1: 8)and if there's a good success, automatically we know there is a bad success and I will differentiating the two.

Good success 

Comes/springs from godly wisdom

It is not measured in money

It glorifies God

It lasts

It is fruitful

Bad success

Springs from demonic/ungodly wisdom

It is measured in money

Does not glorify God

Doesn't last forever

Let me expatiate:

Success can come from different means.  A man (A) may choose to sell his product using a naked woman on his billboard to attract potential customers.  Sex does sell and guess what? He sells and makes his money. Cool right? You will say he is successful but unfortunately, his success comes from worldly/demonic wisdom and clearly not from God.

Another man (B) wants to sell his product and chooses to go about it in a godly, descent way.  With time,  he becomes successful.  That's Good success. 

It's amazes me how celebrities use nudity and sex to sell their music and they turn back and dedicate a track to God, thanking Him for their success.  I’m like "seriously?!" 

God doesn't measure success in money, how much assets you have, how much you have in your bank account, luxury or how much houses you build.  Good success is not measured with materialism. 

Good success is a well rounded success, spiritually and physically;  materially and immaterially. Everything about you flourishes. You may not have millions in your bank account but when you have God, you have everything.

In fact, you are even richer than Dangote because you are operating with the heavenly currency called faith.

The world's main pursuit is money.  What they do they do in the name of money or should I say Mammon? Money is the world’s yardstick of success that’s why they will do anything to get it while they neglect the One that truly matters.

But for the Christian who pursues God, all the material things will naturally follow him.  They will come and he will be blessed in every way; in your children, your marriage, your spiritual life. You will experience joy, peace, patience etc.

Someone may have all the money in the world but no joy, no decent children to share it with,  no good home, no peace. Money answers all things material but it doesn't afford the immaterial.

You can buy the whole world with money but spiritual gifts can't be bought.  They are God given.

So which success do you have?  Maybe you think you have made it in life but you made your money through prostitution, dishonesty, cheating, defrauding, lies, sex appeal etc, pele, your success na counterfeit. See Psalm 73.

The devil specializes in giving man what looks like success but deep inside, it is a fake success. True success is God-given, no short-cuts!

Aim for good success, the God-kind of success that lasts!