Position Yourself for Success – Part 3

Success belongs to the competent.

Ecclesiastes 10:10 says, “If the axe is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed but skill will bring success.” Increasing your competence at anything is like sharpening a dull axe. As the sharp axe will always turn out more efficient than the dull one, the competent will always turn out more efficient than the incompetent.

Consequent to being more effective, the competent always have better chances of being noticed and elevated by men than the incompetent. Proverbs 22:29 says, “Do you see any truly competent workers? They will serve kings rather than working for ordinary people” The competent always reach a stage where man cannot but elevate them.

America’s 26th president, Theodore Reosevelt, once said “There are two kinds of success. One is the very rare kind that comes to the man that has the power to do what no one has the power to do. This is genius. But the average man who wins what we call success is not a genius. He is a man who has the ordinary qualities that he shares with his fellows, but who has developed these ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.” Competence is seldom naturally acquired, but is habitually developed. The majority of the people that are successful in life have acquired a specific range of skills, knowledge, or abilities and developed them to a more than ordinary degree.

If you are to be successful in life, you need to acquire a specific range of skills, knowledge, or abilities and develop them to a more than ordinary degree.