Struggling with Success

[VanZ]

I'm nineteen years old and I'm a freshman at the Virginia Military Institute. During our first six months at VMI, my classmates and I were in our initiation phase called the Ratline. We were constantly yelled at, dropped for pushups, running around from place to place, being called out for any little mistake we made. It sucked. But that suck brought me so close to God. It was on those days that the cadre never stopped getting in my face and I kept failing and failing again that I turned to God for strength and for guidance.

Now, we're no longer rats and everything that I've wanted to happen, is happening. I'm getting promoted, I'm on the Dean's list, I've contracted with the Marine Corps, everything seems to be going my way. But that closeness with God that I once felt is dwindling.

Can anyone give me advice on how to strive after God even when you're being successful and everything is going right?

 

[Johnnz]

Rejoice and be thankful. Father delights in your success too.

John
NZ

 

[1watchman]

Here is a thought. Make sure your relationship is life in Christ. God may bless one and show mercies to one for a time, but after a time they may be left to their own resources if they do not receive God's beloved Son into their heart and become "born again" by the Holy Spirit. One is not a real Christian until they are "born again".

God "quickens" one (awakens and makes alive) to Himself, but if they do not go any further and receive the gift of salvation, there is nothing further God will offer.

This is just one thought to the situation you describe ---which may not apply to you if you know you are saved and truly a "child of God". When one is devoted to the Lord Jesus and in communion with Him they will be greatly blessed.