22.3 | From Man’s Perspective vs. From God’s Perspective
Section 3 | From Man’s Perspective vs. From God’s Perspective: Two Engineerings of Success
Although human experience has summarized many "principles of success"—such as setting clear goals, maintaining belief, being persistent, never giving up, and constant trial and correction—these principles only explain the surface phenomena. They do not explain "where the power that truly makes success happen comes from."
From a human perspective, success seems to be the superposition of three things:
- Being clear about what you want—Whether it is an individual or an enterprise, the goal must be clear.
- Believing you can definitely do it—Maintaining internal belief and not being easily shaken.
- Constant action and correction—Adjusting immediately when encountering problems, trying again, correcting again, until suddenly succeeding one day.
This set of logic constitutes the foundation of almost all modern success studies. What people see at the experiential level is ideal, persistence, and willpower. Some see it at the action level and summarize it as: Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First, etc. Others see it at the psychological level: how to achieve belief, and how to gain new momentum through "pivoting thoughts" when encountering situations that do not fit one’s own ideas.
However, this is only "how it looks from the human perspective," not "how things actually happen."
1. The Limitation of the Human Law of Persistence: How Far Can Willpower Take You?
We often hear a sentence: "People who never give up will eventually succeed." But in the real world, we also see another common situation:
- People who never give up persist until they go bankrupt;
- People who never give up might persist until they end up in prison;
- People who never give up even drag their entire family into the abyss.
If success relied entirely on human willpower, then all people with strong willpower should have achieved "great breakthroughs" in their lives. But that is not the case.
Where is the problem?
In the human perspective, if a person is persistent, they should receive a reward; but in God’s perspective, if a person’s persistence lacks submission and an open heart, then that is the Self resisting the flow of universal laws. A person locked tight by the Ego, no matter how hard they work, can only crash into their own blind spots.
Psychology has a term called "Persistence of Blind Spots":
The more a person forcefully persists in their own judgment, the more they fail to see the real problem. This is why success studies based solely on willpower bring about a vast amount of misguidance.
From God’s perspective: True success engineering is never us doing the work. At a deeper level, what truly determines success is not:
- Your persistence,
- Your plans,
- Your calculating power,
- Your experience,
- Or your cleverness.
But a more fundamental fact:
Success is not something we make; it is God working in our lives, and we are merely the channel for His work. Human persistence can, at most, ensure that we "do not leave the battlefield," but it cannot guarantee that we "find the right direction."
The reason you keep trying, keep correcting, and keep falling is because God wants to use these failures to:
- Knock on the door of your heart and let you loosen the Ego;
- Prepare materials for you, connecting all the fragments you have walked through into the answer for the future.
These two processes are both indispensable.
Therefore, "never giving up" is not the cause of success, but the prerequisite for God to continue His work. Persistence does not automatically bring success, but persistence ensures:
- The door is not yet shut tight,
- Materials are still accumulating,
- God can still advance His engineering in your life.
2. A Story: Why with the Same Persistence, Some Succeed and Others Are Destroyed?
An entrepreneur once shared his experience.
During his first venture, he took "never giving up" as his faith.
He desperately persisted in his own direction, even mortgaging his house and dragging his family into anxiety and quarrels. Later, he went bankrupt, and his marriage nearly reached its end.
During his second venture, he changed his posture—it wasn't "I must succeed," but rather "If it conforms to God’s heart, I am willing to submit." The strange thing was, that year, almost all critical nodes came from unexpected "external forces":
People he met by chance, partners who appeared passively, market demands that suddenly arose...
He, on the contrary, had no intense obsession, yet things went smoothly beyond belief.
He later summarized it in one sentence:
"The first time, it was I who was working; the second time, it was God working. It looked like persistence in both cases, but the essence was completely different."
This story truly presents the difference between two kinds of persistence:
- Ego-centered persistence becomes heavier and more blind as it goes.
- Persistence after submission becomes lighter and brighter as it goes.
3. The Final Divide: Human Success Engineering vs. God’s Success Engineering
Human Success Engineering:
- Relies on the mind to set goals
- Relies on willpower to maintain belief
- Relies on effort for constant trial and error
- Relies on persistence to wait for results
But it cannot explain:
- Why some persist and succeed
- While others persist and fail
- And some are destroyed the more they persist
Because it ignores:
Man fundamentally cannot control the future, nor can he predict or carry all variables.
God’s Success Engineering:
- The direction is given by God (you are only responsible for asking and confirming)
- The materials are prepared by God (everything you do is connected)
- The channel is determined by the heart’s door (the more you submit, the easier it is to be led)
- The result appears at the last moment (Dot-to-Dot, understandable only in hindsight)
In man's eyes:
- It is persistence that brought success. It is effort that brought success. It is technique that brought success.
In God's eyes:
- It is He who makes all things work together for good, and in the instant your heart’s door opens, He assembles all materials into the answer.
You think you have "finally succeeded," but the truth is often:
You have simply walked onto the line that God prepared for you.
Conclusion: Two Perspectives, Two Destinies
The Human Perspective brings:
- Pressure
- Burdens
- Blind spots
- Failure cycles
- A sense of "getting lucky" with success
God’s Perspective brings:
- Clarity
- Submission
- Rest
- All things working together
- Inevitable success
And therefore, true success is not "hustled out by oneself," but is completed by God through submission.
Human success studies will tell you: "Never give up, and you will definitely succeed." "Learn the techniques, and you will definitely make it next time." "If you aren't successful, it’s because you aren't working hard enough or aren't persistent enough." "Those without strong willpower do not deserve success." And so on. You attribute all responsibility to yourself; you only get more and more tired, more broken the more you fail. Even if you succeed, it tells you there is something even more successful, you still need to work hard—you will never have rest.
But God’s Success Engineering tells you: "As long as you remain submissive, success will definitely be completed at the right time." "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Your effortless success always has an Almighty Supporter helping you succeed. You do not need to force your willpower, you do not need to blame yourself; you only need to submit, and then give thanks.
Two types of success engineering—which one do you choose?
