Successful Christians

Are you a successful Christian? I was watching the 700 Club this morning and this question popped into my head.  I thought this was an excellent question...So what is your answer to this question?

What makes for a successful Christian...let's look at John 4 and the story of the Woman at the Well....

⁵ So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹ Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

¹¹ The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? ¹² Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

This is probably the best example I can show to you...we as Christians are to spread the gospel...isn't this exactly what Jesus is doing here?  Do you show others what the Bible means to you on a daily basis?  We as a people can be trite at times, and I do not think nor do I believe, that this is what our Savior could possibly want from us!

"I think" that God wants us to live our lives according to what God want's for us, not necessarily what we want.  Now there are those who are able to do both!  How awesome would that be?  But for those of us who do not have that wonderful life, we may have to work a little bit harder at figuring out the direction that God wants us to go.  God wants us to be successful Christians....are you willing to find out if you are being a success?  And a success for God? 

There are days when I start to talk to you all and I really wonder what direction I need to take, and there are times that I reread what I have sent out and I can't help but think, thank you God, because I don't feel necessarily that the words are from me..I firmly believe they are of God.  We may continue on this tomorrow, but for today go out into this wonderful world and be a blessing!