God Is Not Dependent on Our Human Success

By A. W. Tozer

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,
that he may exalt you in due time.         1Peter 5:6

    Why is it that the professed Christian church seems to
have learned so little from our Lord's plain teaching and
example concerning human failure and success?

    We are still seeing as men see and  judging after the
manner of man's judgment.  How  much  eager beaver
religious work is done out of a  carnal  desire to make
good?

    How many hours of prayer are wasted beseeching
God to bless projects that are geared to the glorification
of  little  men?   How much  sacred  money  is  poured
out upon men who,  in spite of their  tear-in-the-voice
appeals, nevertheless seek only to make a fair show in
the flesh?

    The true Christian should turn away from all this. No
man is worthy to succeed until he is willing to fail. No
man is morally worthy of success in religious activities
until he is willing that the honor of succeeding should go
to another if God so wills.

    God may allow His servant to succeed when He has
disciplined him to a point where he does not need to
succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success
and cast down by failure is still a carnal man.

    God will allow His servant to succeed when he has
learned that success does not make him dearer to God or
more valuable in the total scheme of things.

    Our great honor lies in being just what Jesus was and
is. To be accepted by those who accept Him, rejected by
all who reject Him, loved by those who love Him. What
greater glory could come to any man?
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.