Hi, this is Joel. Today our son Jonathan is going to be sharing with you. I hope you enjoy the podcast.

Tonight I want to talk about the path to greatness.

Each one of us has a desire to do something meaningful, to live a life worth remembering.

We all want to reach our dreams and become the best version of ourselves. It's the way God designed us.

No one wakes up in the morning and says, I hope I'm just mediocre today.

God, please help me to be more insignificant. That's not in our nature.

We're meant to advance. We're wired for greatness. We admire people who have done great things

and wonder how we could achieve something great ourselves. God put that desire in each one of our hearts.

But many times the true path to greatness is completely overlooked.

I had a friend that had a dream to work in politics. He got a job in Washington, D.C.

and joined a group of talented up and coming people in the same field.

They worked on all sorts of projects together. But it wasn't long before he began to realize these friends were only his friends as long as he wasn't in the way of them moving up.

They were so determined to succeed. They would do whatever they had to. They would talk down about someone in front of their superiors to make themselves look good.

They wouldn't share about opportunities. They were only concerned with their own elevation.

It was all a means to an end. After a few years my friend decided that just wasn't the way he wanted to live his life.

He saw greatness, but he knew there had to be a better path.

Society says, you have to do whatever it takes to get to the top. When it all costs.

It's now or never. Doesn't matter who you have to step on or what stands in the way.

That's what it takes to succeed. Most of the time it's not that we're trying to put people down.

But all that we've been told is you have to grind. Work your way to the top. Fight for position. That's what's required to be great.

It can feel like if we're not giving all of our energy to our own goals and ambitions and we're falling behind.

But what if there was a better approach? What if there was a path to greatness, society doesn't talk about?

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