Define success

How do we define success in today’s society? Money, looks, possessions, popularity? In today’s society, we very much have a materialistic mindset. I believe our purpose on this Earth in this life is 1) to exist, and we can’t do that trying to keep up with the Jones’s, and 2) to make a difference in someone’s life and in this world. I have seen stories of where people have committed suicide because they gave way to the peer pressure and others who saw no purpose in life but continued on their way because that’s all they knew. When you’re living by the world’s standards, it’s all about the outside and what the world tries to get you to believe. I heard a story once where a guy who was a Christian wanted to serve God whole heartedly. He began by waking up one morning and aksed God what he should do. God told him to go outside and push on a huge boulder. The guy did and it never moved. Each morning the guy always awoke with the same question and recieved the same response until he died. When he got to Heaven Jesus noticed him crying and asked what the reason was. The guy said that he had failed because he never moved the boulder. Jesus responded, ‘You did not fail because I never asked you to move the boulder, but only push on it.’ We all too often feel that the results are left up to us, but we’re just to be obedient.