JOSHUA 1:8 : This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day
and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your
way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
My local newspaper reported that a man and woman who tried to hop a Union Pacific train from North
Platte, Nebraska, to Omaha were being held in Dawson county jail on trespass charges. But the
couple wouldn’t have gotten to Omaha even if they hadn’t been apprehended; the train was headed
to Kansas City.
Many people who think they’re on the train headed for success are really going in the opposite
direction. History is awash with examples of men and women who found a form of success, but lived
to regret it. It was not what the Bible calls “good” success. Lord Byron, who achieved fame both as a
poet and a libertine, wrote at the age of 35:
My days are in the yellow leaf,
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone.
God’s success is far different• it’s always headed in the right direction. Joshua was assured that if he
lived Consistent with ‘what was written in God’s Word he would achieve success but not just any
success. God’s promise to Joshua, as well as to you and me, is that if we live by all that is written in
the Bible, we will achieve “good” success.
The key to good success is obedience to God’s Word. If you conform your life to God’s will, as it is
revealed in His Word you’ll experience the kind of success that will be a blessing rather than a
burden.
ONLY A GOOD GOD CAN GIVE GOOD SUCCESS.