I think it does a person well to ask themselves if they are living life for an outside audience (those of flesh and blood) or if they are living life for God. If one is living life for an outside audience I believe that one should be ready to stifle their assertions and tone down their message. This especially applies when one is discussing the controversial topics that God puts forth at truth.

For success delivering messages in this world:

1. Only reveal truths that people will like, can handle, or will tolerate.
2. Make it exciting and full of hope (even if the topic isn’t really so full of hope after all).

If one were to follow these two guidelines then I am quite confident that they would have “worldly success”. However, worldly success is like a vision of island vapor oscillating in the desert heat – it lulls but fails to satisfy. Still, so many trade their honor and integrity for such an illusion. In fact, they often trade their very souls for such a vacuous mirage.

Didn’t Eve (and Adam too) trade the Garden of Eden for such illusory power? Did they not partake of that forbidden fruit only to turn to one another reviling their nakedness? Too often today we see those promoting truth (that of Jesus our Savior) pushed to the wayside for the glory of a promising mirage…

Alas, the journey to the mirage is one of carefree and impetuous whim – no worries, only castles in the air. But will the charade be so full of glory when one dips their head to the shimmering aquatic hallucination and receives nothing aside from a mouthful of dry sand? Such it will be in the day of judgment and such we should seek to avoid.

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