Fail At Everything Else

We find God as He strips things away and removes burdens, not as He piles things on (scripture). Sometimes these are even things that we have convinced ourselves that we want and need, but they begin to consume us. Don't look for a certain thing (job, person, circumstance, opportunity) to be your savior. If you are not enough without it, then you will not be satisfied with it. You + nothing + Jesus = success. Get THAT down. "Blessings" and "good opportunities" and "callings" are no good if they distance or distract us from Jesus. Fail at everything else, but DO NOT fail at knowing God. That is what you build your life on. Doing something great for God pails compared to doing anything with God. Relationship always trumps production. God is a lot better at making and fixing things than you are anyway. You are a child of God, not a common laborer.

We need to stop deceiving ourselves that once some breakthrough or opportunity finally happens, then everything will fall into place with God. Seek Him now. Know Him now. Worry about "doing something great with your life" later. Knowing God IS doing something great. He would rather you know Him, than accomplish something "for" Him. As a wise man once said, "Don't gain the whole world and forfeit your soul". It is also true that we shouldn't gain part of the world and forfeit part of our soul. Once you know Him, and have a deep relationship with Him, nothing will stand in your way. You'll be fishing with dynamite, and it won't even be fair.