 In a recent article, I made the case that faith is an act of obedience to the command of God to believe in the Son (Obedient Faith: Redefining Success for Christians). We see this in 1st John 3:23-24 (NASB1995), "23 This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. 24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us." But what gives us the power to follow this command in obedient faith to believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ?
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 When we think of what it means to be successful, we often think of meeting certain family, financial, and career milestones. We want to graduate college, get a great job, fund a retirement portfolio, and invest our money in the meantime anywhere we can to maximize our ROI. We usually want to do all the things that are expected of us, and that usually arises from the level of success that we observed in the family we were born into. If we came from parents who had a healthy marriage and kids, substantial wealth, master’s or doctoral degrees, we usually will try to achieve those same things (although few people acknowledge where their aspirations come from). And there’s nothing wrong with any of those aspirations. Education, family, career, these are wholesome and meaningful endeavors. But do they define success from a biblical perspective?
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