who are your peers?

it would be a grave, common mistake to compare your life only with those immediately around you.

when examining your life, it may be possible to elevate yourself to the level of "okay," "average" or even "pretty good" when your line of sight is no further than your culture or even your time in history.

do not limit yourself by the maturity and passion and dreams of your peers.

do not limit yourself by the current culture's expectations of a "good" life, or the American "dream."

make friends with Charles Spurgeon, George Mueller, Martin Luther, Jonathon Edwards.

examine your life with a peer-group of William Wilberforce, William Carey, and the apostle Paul.

then test your holiness, test your passion, test the works of your life against those God-honoring, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated lives.

the life of Spurgeon and Mueller have convicted me to the core and left my longing for that kind of faith, that sort of indwelling of His Spirit, that deep of a passion for His supremacy in all things for the joy of all people.

so i would recommend reading biographies.