What does success mean to us?

The Cambridge Dictionary defines success as "the fact of achieving something good that you have been trying to do" or "something that has a good result".

What is our measure of success? Who is our benchmark?

List of the rich and famous? Nobel prize winners? Award winners in our field of profession? Famous book authors that we admire? Title holders in sports? Coaches who produced winning teams? History makers? War generals? Kings and queens? Doctors who saved many lives? Famous art makers?

Or maybe figures from the Bible. The prophets? One of the kings? The apostles? Or Jesus himself who was obedient unto death?

Are you obsessed with becoming successful?

John the Baptist had a different idea.

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless God gives it from heaven.

You yourselves know how plainly I told you, ‘I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for him.’ It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the bridegroom’s friend is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows.

Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success. He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less."

(John 3.27-30 NLT)