* With faithfulness will come success.

* I teach my kids to “trust the process.”

* When success comes, however, it becomes increasingly difficult not to be overcome by it.

* This is normal for people with ambition.

* What’s vital gets overrun by what’s urgent.

* Faith becomes optional when you’re successful.

* We begin to focus on our thing over God’s thing.

* So what do we do?

* We do what God told the Israelites to do - “Consider your ways!”

* Some were working hard and making good money but they had nothing to show for it.

* Others were working hard and making no money.

* There was no fulfillment in the work they were doing.

* They all needed to “consider” their ways.

* They needed to look around and notice God was standing against them in their work, not with them.

* ** God is a fantastic business partner, but we have to go at His pace and according to His plan **

* If not, He becomes our competitor - and we’ll never win!

* Today, stop, get alone, and consider your ways.