Faith fullness is the cornerstone of success

Faithfulness is the Cornerstone of Success

True success can only be gained through perserverance hard work and discipline. But that does not tell the whole story...it takes faith as well ....if we break the word faithfullness up we have two root words faith and full. Said in a different ordei you would have full of faith. See life is not a 100 meter sprint it is a marathon. and when obstacles opposition and resistance and persecution come what keeps a person working hard, persevering and holding to a disciplined regiment is faith that one day the goal will be met. Vince Lombardi puts it best in my book....Success happens when the will to prepare meets the desire to win.

True story a man applies for a job at General Electric back then not a very well known company but up and coming...He is hired at an entery level position. A position most people would resign themselves to for a long time and retire from or quit eventually and go and get another job. THE MAILROOM. Now I have worked in a mailroom and sorted packages for fed-ex and allot of good hard working men work for 20 yrs and retire and get pensions and have good quality lives....but if this man would have settled for this could we call it a successful! life. We will never know the story goes on . This man worked his way up ...went to night school at night got his bachelors in business and went into middle management. Once again job well done nobody would have ever faulted this man for just accepting life with the Jones's but the story for this man does not end in middle management he kept going he had a dream a vision and a goal and plan to achieve it. As time goes on he gets some recognition see he was talented as well but more then talented he was faithful!. I would wager he never called in sick. I would wager he worked every overtime hour given even after he was on salary. After a long and successful! career as a corporate executive Jack Welch became the CEO of general electric....Now knowing the end of the story do you think the guy who hired him and stuffed him in the mailroom would have done the same thing...more over if Jack Welch had not been put into the mailroom do you think he would have been such a great CEO. Who knows? What we do know is this that Jack Welch was faithfull never quit. When other companies called and offered more money he stayed when his wives divorced him (which happened six times) he never took a day off ..See he understood its a dog eat dog world and he was wearing milk bone underwear and doing good yesterday means nothing today. He was not content with just being good. What I take from this as a man is there is something to be said for just being on time every where I go. For just doing my job I am given to the best of my ability and for plowing through walls and obstacles and not allowing the body or mind divert me from my destiny.

Sadly what happens in allot of companies and churches is we see talented men and women and think we can obtain long-term success with them ... and in some cases this holds true because they are faithful but in allot of cases with these companies the lure of a quick buck the cash in and dash mentality takes over and we get too focused on the now and we marry our ministry and business to people who we have no clue about their faithfulness what so ever...because a man talks good he is on stage right a way the poster of a ministry ...because a guy has the gift to gab we put him in high pressure closing situations ...what is wrong with scrubbing some toilets to build trust reputation,. one of my Heroes in the faith Pastor Ruben Gonzales told me a story that he was a volunteer praise and worship leader at a Church in Texas but was also the churches Janitor. He worked hard stayed faithful and eventually turned that volunteer position into a paid staff position...and now he is the director of the Phoenix Dream Center and runs a ministry for troubled families and needy people called Adopt a Block...he did not just land there by accident first he was Faithfull over that toilet he was told to scrub...it is this example ol having the vision even when you don't have the path that keeps me going today....! am not sure how God is going to get me from point A to point B but I do know this my mission today is just to be faithful to point A. I want to be the most faithful point A guy alive. The bible says Jesus Christ was faithful even unto death. When you look at things from that perspective what’s a toilet to clean huh. If it will produce greatness in me today I am willing to scrub toilets just like my Pastor did.