One price of success is the higher scrutiny you will be subject to.
Perhaps the reason you’re still at your current level is because of the private battles you’ve not won yet.
Perhaps God is protecting you and you’re experiencing a dimension of grace to change your ways before it’s too late.
Everyone knows the role that Martin Luther King Jr (MLK) played in the civil rights movement.
Naturally, because of his prominent role in the struggle against inequality, MLK was subject to greater scrutiny by the powers that be.
What they found wasn’t pretty.
Behind the cool, calm and charismatic Reverend that gave the “I have a dream” speech, the FBI found a man who drank, smoked, spoke vulgar and had multiple sexual partners.
While some of the FBI findings were released sometime in 2019, this image of MLK had been painted by his associates in books they wrote as far back as the 1980s.
If you look through the annals of history, you’d find it littered with the blood and bones of great men who may have gotten public victories but were limited by their private battles.
I’m reminded of the story of the two wolves:
‘A fight is going on inside every person. It’s a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil and the other is good. The wolf that will win is the one that is fed”
This story is instructive.
Take care of your private battles. Do everything in your power to avoid joining the list of casualties on the road to destiny.