Topic: Hope And Success

There are times when success or reaching the pinnacle can diminish our hope. When we have reached success or reached the pinnacle then our hope can vanish because we have met our expectations or we have reached our goal. We refer to losing our hope after we have achieved success as a "letdown". In addition, when a pinnacle is reached, people have been known to destroy themselves because they find their hope is suddenly gone. Maintaining hope after success has been reached is a critical issue if we want to continue success. At the beginning of a quest, hope abounds. As long as the quest has not been achieved the flame of hope can brightly burn. However, when the pinnacle is reached our hope can evaporate even as we celebrate our achievement. For the Christian, our real pinnacle rests on the other side in Paradise. Nothing in this life begins to compare to our quest for Heaven. We know in our spiritual certainty there will be no letdown when we reach Heaven because in Heaven hope is eternally realized, eternally actualized, and eternally burning. In more practical terms for our present life here on earth, we must always place all of our hopes in the proper perspective. In our present life, there can always be a new quest, a new goal, a new ambition, a new desire, a new project, or a new circumstance filling us with earthly hope and earthly promise.

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