Christian Success

I was really encouraged by a quality blog and preach I heard on WorshipMatters.com. The post was talking about whose glory we make music for. So often it can be really easy to get bogged down with the feeling that what we do has little significance when it comes to the bigger picture - yet we look around and can find a hundred Christians, especially worship leaders who seem to be blessing thousands with their ministries.

Yet this post reminded me that we cannot measure success in the way the world measures success. As Christians we should use God's measuring 'rod' as our measure - and actually that is all the counts. It also reminded me that perhaps when I feel that I am unsuccessful, perhaps I am being a glory-hunter rather than a glory-projector.

I am often reminded that while it is awesome that we have stacks of inspirational worship leaders and song-writers out there, the place they are greatly needed is in the local church. It may seem that we are leading worship week after week to a handful of people, but yet our local churches need quality, God-fearing worship leaders. It may seem that any songs we write only get heard by the small number of people in our church, but our local churches need quality, God-inspired songs to help express where the church is at in that time.

I have an incling that if we even remotely understood this stuff - wait, scratch that, if I remotely understood and grasped this stuff it would put into perspective what I do and why I do it so much more. My heart deep down is to be a glory-proector - why do I forget this so easily? Lord, give me Your understanding on this!