keep yourself humble.” I realized that his goal was to maintain some balance in his counsel to me. “While you are serving God, you will enjoy some triumphs. Remember, then, that success has a highly intoxicating component. Be careful that you do not get drunk from it.” That phrase made quite an impression on me, as if God’s own chisel had carved it in me. I had to react quickly so as not to get caught up by it, for wisdom continued to flow out of the mouth of my old pastor. “There are people who spend