God Is Not Responsible For Success Or Failure
I have a very important announcement. God is not responsible for any ills that befalls anybody, neither is He responsible for the success of anyone.
Follow me, this is deep but I assure you, I will explain as I am led by the Holy Spirit.
In Genesis 1, we see the account of creation and an amazing way God concludes each project. The scripture would always say, “He saw it and it was good”. This was so with everything He made. God tested them first and confirmed that they were good before He moved to the next project.
Everything was originally created with its success built into it. If it failed, God cannot lie, He would have said so. But in it all… it is written “And God Saw that it was good”. This statement is a pass mark that qualifies His product to operate the market of life.
Understanding The Difference
The difference exist in the fact that there are two realms: The Spiritual and The Physical Realm. God created all these things in the spiritual and set natural laws to control the manifestation of the success that was wired into them. The success that God saw and said it was good.
So, these laws became the regulator of the outcome of all God had created. And God did this so that man can chose what they want and make it happen.
Prove of The Law Of Nature
I had a seed of bean kept on my table for 30 days and it was just there, no sprout, no growth. Then, five days ago I decided to plant it. Today it has sprouted.
What to learn:
The success of that seed of bean was always inside the bean. All that it could become, all it could do was all inside but no body could see it until it obeyed the natural law set by God for the manifestation of its Success (the one God saw and said “it is good”)
What could not happen in thirty days happened in less than five days. Nobody is useless or trash they just haven't committed themselves to the right environment that will lead to their sprouting. Growth is a choice. That bean would have died with all other beans inside of it.
God left us to make the choice
You are responsible for the outcome of your life. For instance, you attended a wedding, and the host decided to appreciate you for coming, then he gave you a lot of gift (chocolate, banana, red win, pots, plates, cloths etc.) and some of these gifts, you don't need or like them.
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If you leave that wedding with those gifts, you may end up wasting or trashing some you have no use for.
What a waste, God knows that we are all unique in our own ways so He doesn't impose things on us. We choose them and take them. This makes the definition of success to be:
Definition Of Success
Success is having what you choose. What you chose does not end with what you say but what you lived out. This means failure can be someone’s indirect choice even though they said they wanted success.
For instance, If you had a BSC and sleeps all day without search for a job with your qualification, at the end of every month, you will be broke with your certification, though you had said you'd be wealthy. Wealth does not respond to what you say, but what you say and do.
Scriptural Foundations
Ephesians 5:20: “Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”.
The Keyword there is: “Always”, it does not matter whether you failed or succeeded. In God’s eyes, you succeeded. Because what you have is what you chose and your wish was granted through the windows of natural law.
Matthew 25:22: “The master said, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let’s celebrate together!”
I will encourage you to read this story from verse 14, you will notice that their boss did not tell them what to do with the money he gave to them. ‘
Then in verse 16, the one with five bags went and invested his own. This was not his mater’s instruction, it was what he chose to do and he did it.
In verse 19 and 20, the master returned and demanded accounting. This parable of Jesus is an insight that proves that success or failure is not God’s fault. It is a product of Choice and God rewards increase.
Conclusion:
Your life was give to you as a bag of treasures, how much have you yielded from it? Success is your choice and brings glory to God. Please note this, God is happy when you produce fruit like the servant that received five bags.
Make your choice today. Sow yourself to good work. The nations are waiting for your light, let your salt out to bless those in need of taste.
Stay blessed.
