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What price will you pay for SUCCESS?

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and dust collect and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. -Matthew 6:20,21

When I feel as if thieves have broken in and stolen my 'treasures'
God speaks so gently to my heart.
    "What treasures have been taken away, my daughter?
         Your reputation?
         Man's validation?
         Others' opinion of you?  
         Do you not see that these were your earthly treasures? 
         Cheap substitutes for what I have called you to seek after?
         Do you not realize what truth you laid down to pick up these trinkets you call treasures? 
Success and value to the world are what I own, what I have achieved, and my standing in the eyes of others.....
I surrender these gladly!
Their price it too high...
They cost me the real treasures,
   -My integrity
   -My husband-my covering and my partner, the one who sees me yet still loves me!
   -My children-my gifts from the Lord, never to be taken for granted!
   -Authentic relationships- scary things that require keeping my walls down....
   -My relationship with God- Yes, He loves me but His plan for me is NOT found in man's plans
   -My witness- May others see Jesus in me through the humbling of myself to HIM
   -My peace!!!!
     
Lord, I lay down my earthly life, my cheap trinkets of success, and man's praise... every earthly treasure. I lay them down to pick up and carry forth the life you intend for me to live!  Help me to live for you with all of my heart, with all of my mind and with all of my strength!  May I find fulfillment and peace in who YOU have called me to be. 

 Thank you for your mercy that is new every morning. You already paid the ultimate price for that mercy. I accept it and walk forward in You!

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