A Most Successful Man. A Miserable Man.
I know of a man who accomplished great things. He planted churches all over his world. He withstood some of the most horrific challenges known to humanity. Abuse and even torture had been directed toward him just to silence him, and he would not be silenced. The power of The Holy Spirit was upon him in such away that everywhere he went God did something unusual. He wrote prolifically and recorded letters/books that God used and uses to transform lives for more than two millennia. He led untold numbers to a saving faith in Jesus Christ. In his earlier years, he was fairly well off as a key religious leader of his era, but he counted all that as if it were rubbish to simply please God and do God's will. He could very easily be considered successful. However, I also remember him one day saying that he was really upset with himself. He was, on that day, really down on himself. He was clearly mad at himself and maybe even depressed because he felt like he simply w