Success

Watching SportsCenter this morning, I saw an article about a poker player called “The Mouth” . . . Mike Matusow. He verbally attacks players to knock them off their game and seems to be successful. He is the man every poker player wants to beat. And he defines the world’s idea of success.

He told a story of all of the drugs, women, and partying anyone could stand. He talks as if it is the ultimate life, and yet when you watch and listen to him, you see the emptiness. The hopelessness. Even to be the greatest poker player in the world doesn’t measure up to a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Yeah, he can bluff the world’s best poker players and win. Yes, he has won tons of money . . . And, admittedly has lost tons as well. One of his quotes is to succeed in poker, you have to not care at all about money. And it isn’t about the money, but about the rush.

One day, the rush will end. Where will he turn??