How do you judge success?

If we judge success by our standards, you would probably consider some of the following factors.

- Career
- House
- Car
- Spouse
- Money
- Kids (how well they perform by the same standards)

Some of us would throw in the personal happiness, job satisfaction and a few other extraneous factors. I would submit, that even those of us that would hesitate to say that we consider these factors, there's and underlying tone to our valuations that take these into account.

Think about it. Would you want your daughter to marry someone that didn't really work. That didn't have a house (or apartment) to live in? Someone that had no money, no health insurance or a decent car? Most of us would say absolutely not.

What about if that was your son. Would you be happy with him? Would you want him to have that as his life?

You probably know where I'm going with this, right?

Think about Jesus, what did he have? He was probably one of the least successful people by our standards that we know. Yet, he was one of the truly successful people of all time. I have known some great people in my life, and as great as they are, we will not be talking about them in 2000 years.

I am not saying that we should all quit our jobs, sell our homes and trade our sneakers in for sandals. But, just maybe we should consider how we evaluate people, how we judge ourselves. Maybe we should think about what our life says about what we value.