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Fear. Worry. Pain: They can feel all-consuming. Author and speaker Amberley Neese believes that in the questions Jesus asks in the Gospels, there are answers big enough for all three--and a highway to stronger faith.

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• Untangling Faith: Reclaiming Hope in the Questions Jesus Asked Participant Workbook
  by Amberly Neese.
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Achievement is often measured by accumulation and applause, but Jesus offers a very different scoreboard. On the next Faith & Finance Live, Rob West redefines success and explores what truly matters to God. Discover how to realign your hearts—and your financial decisions—with God’s purposes. Then, it’s on to your calls. That’s Faith & Finance Live . . . biblical wisdom for your financial journey. That’s weekdays at 4pm Eastern/3pm Central on Moody Radio.

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Matthew 6:11 states, “Give us this day our daily bread.” Those seven words from the Lord’s Prayer are so familiar that we can miss how radical they are. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He invited them to trust God for provision not all at once, but one day at a time. On the next Faith & Finance Live, Rob West describes what it means to trust God for daily bread in a world obsessed with tomorrow. Then, it’s on to your calls. That’s Faith & Finance Live, where biblical wisdom meets today’s finances—weekdays at 4pm Eastern/3pm Central on Moody Radio.

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Quotes:

"I remain hopeful."

"The alternatives to Jesus are so much weaker."

"I lack nothing. I'm playing from a strong hand because of Jesus."

"Anything with 'We're Going to Die' in the title is probably depression-inducing."

Henry Drummond once wrote, “To become like Christ is the only thing in the world worth caring for…before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.” Those words cut straight to the heart of how Scripture defines success.

In a culture that measures achievement by accumulation and applause, Jesus offers a very different scoreboard—one centered not on what we gain, but on who we become.

It’s easy to believe that if we could just reach a little higher, earn a little more, or move a little faster, we’d finally arrive.

We see this impulse at the very beginning of Scripture. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve weren’t lacking anything, yet they believed something better was being held back (Genesis 3). At the Tower of Babel, humanity declared, “Let us make a name for ourselves” (Genesis 11:4).

Success, in their minds, meant defining greatness on their own terms.

That same instinct shapes us today. We measure success by paychecks and promotions, by titles, trophies, and the size of our homes or portfolios. And in a world that equates success with accumulation, it’s hard not to wonder: Am I successful yet? Will more finally be enough?

Jesus speaks directly into that tension in Luke 12:15: “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

He then tells the parable of the rich fool (Luke 12:16–21). A man experiences an abundant harvest and decides to tear down his barns to build bigger ones. He reassures himself: “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”

On the surface, it sounds like success. He planned ahead. He saved. He prepared. But Jesus calls him a fool.

Listen to the language: my barns, my grain, my goods, my soul. There’s no gratitude, no dependence on God, no concern for others. His definition of success was accumulation, and his confidence rested entirely in what he had stored up.

God’s response is sobering: “This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” (Luke 12:20)

Jesus concludes, “So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God” (Luke 12:21).

The story is meant to shake us awake. It exposes how easily we confuse preparation with control and wisdom with self-reliance. God isn’t measuring success by what we store—He’s measuring it by what we surrender.

The apostle Paul understood this well. By every cultural standard of his day, Paul had succeeded. Yet he wrote: “I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:8).

Paul didn’t lower the bar for success—he replaced it. Scripture tells us God’s goal for our lives plainly: “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Romans 8:29).

That’s the metric. Not income. Not influence. Not recognition. Christlikeness.

So it’s worth asking: What scoreboard are you watching right now? Whose applause are you chasing?

If your goals are rooted in impressing others or securing more for yourself, satisfaction will always feel just out of reach. But if your goals are rooted in becoming more like Christ, you’ll discover a kind of success that cannot be taken away.

Jesus invites us to measure progress differently. Instead of asking, “Did I win today?” we can ask, “Did I look a little more like Jesus today?”

In God’s economy:

And God delights in what is done faithfully—even when no on

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What if your doubts made your faith stronger? Author, speaker, and humorist Amberly Neese explores Jesus questions--ones He Himself asked--as a way to reclaim your trust all over again.

Show Notes and Resources

• Untangling Faith: Reclaiming Hope in the Questions Jesus Asked Participant Workbook
  by Amberly Neese.
• Begin the Easter story early with Resurrection Eggs. Start your family tradition now! 
• Learn more about Amberly Neese on her website amberlyneese.com

• Thanks to the Christian Standard Bible for sponsoring this episode. Learn more at CSBible.com.
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