ENTICING POWER OF SUCCESS

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And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not weary all the people there, for the people of Ai are few. Joshua7:3

Achievement, in whatever classification or clime, is music to the ears. We as a whole normally long to succeed. This may represent the assortment of courses and meetings offering distinctive advisers for progress. What is frequently forgotten in our courses is the tempting part of accomplishment. Really, achievement can be enticing in various courses, and for quick thought we swing to one of them. When we get to a point where we start to imagine that future undertakings are nevertheless a walkover, we have just been sucked in by past progress.

Israel was blameworthy of this. By tuning in to God's mandates through Joshua, they cut down the gigantic mass of Jericho and vanquished the land. The following undertaking was a little city called Ai. Our content catches the report of the men sent to spy Ai. They mocked the objective as having couple of men, and that there was no point sending all the ordnance of Israel against it. Lamentably, Joshua tuned in to their advice as opposed to discovering God's psyche on the issue. They lost woefully. Regardless of how much achievement we have recorded, we should rushed to God for help each time we are looked with another undertaking.

The king spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty? Daniel 4:30

In our past contemplation, we set up that achievement can be enchanting on the off chance that it makes us feel that we have aced the ropes and can make accomplishment of anything. Something unique is near this, demonstrating the second way achievement can be tempting. When we glance back at what has been refined and we close it is all by dint of diligent work or keenness, we have fallen into a major enticement. The distinction between the first and this is, while the previous look to the future with unbounded confidence to complete anything, the last thinks back proudly for what is as of now done. Both ways still exhibit a condition of kissing oneself by the hand.

Nebuchadnezzar is a case of somebody who fell into this blunder. It was the Almighty God who conveyed the countries of the earth into his hands, including Israel His kin. Divine help gave him triumph over the countries, however he lost that awareness. Our content underscores two mistakes of the lord. He guaranteed he constructed the domain by his strong power. He missed it; it was the intensity of God at work in him that manufactured it. Besides, he announced that what he assembled was for the respect of his greatness. That made him selfish and egotistical. On the off chance that we will assemble anything by any stretch of the imagination, we better rely on God's quality and make certain it is to respect His name.

Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

We have secured two grounds by which achievement can be enticing in the last two contemplations, yet there is a third one which may even trump them both. A normal individual has the possibility that in the event that he winds up fruitful and lives in some decision area in the city he will be a cheerful man. This attitude is additionally an enchantment and an illusion. I was going to Victoria Island, Lagos in organization of my two children. Our discourse before long floated to the property advertise here. I influenced them to understand that the incongruity, all things considered, is that living in such costly area isn't a certification for an issue free life and satisfaction as a rule. Not some time before that outing, we read the rate of a Danish man who killed his better half and girl in their Banana Island home. Seemingly, that Island must be about the costliest bit of land anyplace around. On the off chance that living there means peace and bliss such fiasco could never have happened.

Solomon treated himself to life on the extraordinary. He procured anything he found in locate, believing that he would discover a reason for which to live. He ate and drank, wedded various ladies and attempted each impulse possible. Toward the end, he closed all to be vanity. Regardless of how incredible our prosperity, it can never fill the vacuum in the heart. No one but God can fill the void and bring us enduring fulfillment.