We let the algorithm, the Joneses, and the highlight reel define success for us — and then wonder why the trophy only satisfies for about two days. Guest Pastor Jeff Sullivan (Granada Church) walks through how the world's smartest people have tried to define success, why even a Super Bowl ring runs empty, and what Scripture says we were actually made for. From Ephesians 2:8-10 — by grace you have been saved, you are His workmanship, created for good works — he reframes success around two anchors: you cannot be successful outside of Christ, and He has redeemed you for something specific. The invitation is simple and personal: stop borrowing someone else's scoreboard and write your own definition of success, beginning with who you are in Christ.
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For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
