Real Success

“For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that He will instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
1 Corinthians 2:10-16

In the booklet Jesus and the Intellectual “a power lunch” is attended by several of the most influential men in the world at the time:

“Attending this meeting (in 1923) were nine of the world’s most successful financiers: Charles Schwab, president of the largest independent steel company; Samuel Insull, president of the largest utility company; Howard Hopson, president of the largest gas company; Arthur Cotton, the greatest wheat speculator; Richard Whitney, president of the New York stock exchange; Albert Fall, a member of the President’s Cabinet; Leon Fraser, president of the Bank of International Settlements; Jesse Livermore, the greatest ‘bear’ on Wall Street; and Ivar Krueger, head of the greatest monopoly.

Twenty-five years later, Schwab had died in bankruptcy; Insull had died a fugitive from justice and penniless in a foreign land; Hopson was insane; Cotton had died abroad, insolvent; Whitney had spent time in Sing Sing; Fall had been pardoned (to) die at home; Livermore, Kruerger, and Fraser had died by suicide.”

God does not determine success by intellect, status, political pull, or wealth. His concern is for our spiritual health which stands at the hub of true achievement. Real success is ending up in heaven.