God has not asked His people to succeed by the world’s logic. He has asked us to live from His life. We are in the world, but not of it; present within its rhythms, yet shaped by a different centre, a different purpose, a different design. And when we lean into that — when we allow Christ’s life to be our operating system rather than the world’s — we find ourselves moving with a coherence that the world can’t manufacture. We become what Jesus said we are: light. Not loud, not forceful, not self‑promoting — just quietly, faithfully luminous. And that is enough. That is how God’s people live. That is how God’s people flourish.