If you are going to be a success, you usually have reached it by the time you re in the mid-40 s. We all want to be successful. Our self-image, our understanding of who we are, depends so much on whether we think we have been successful in life. And so often that image is formed in comparison with others. And then if we discover that they have made more money, advanced further on the job, their children have been in more activities, accumulated more honors, our own egos are deflated a little.
Pastors are some of the worst.
And we start measuring our success in relation to our colleagues. No one wants to be a loser. We all want to be successful. I think Jesus, too, wanted to be successful. Yes, Jesus was God.