Various successes come our way, some offering momentary fulfillment and joy. I am grateful for these. For me, the greatest success in life is to achieve the purpose for which God has called me to. The purpose that drives me is the passion of my heart and soul: To intentionally pass down my faith in Christ to my children and grandchildren.
Most recently, my four-year-old granddaughter paid me the greatest compliment I could ever receive. “Nana, I’m making this bracelet for you because you love Jesus so much!”
“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14).
Quote from George Washington Carver: “The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.”
True successes come with much prayer and perseverance.
View From the Summit (Excerpt from Turning Point, Dr. David Jeremiah, July 13, 2017)
In her book Reach for the Summit, former Tennessee women’s head basketball coach Pat Summitt wrote, “There are different kinds of success. There is fame and fortune, which…is a pretty flimsy, short-lived kind of success. Then there is the more gratifying kind of success that comes from doing something you love, and doing it well. Still another kind of success results from committing to one person and raising a child with them. Yet another is finding a sustained faith in your church. But notice something about all the various forms of success. They are open-ended. They aren’t tasks that you finish. Success is a project that’s always under construction.”1
God wants to give us success as He defines it—the fulfilling of His perfect will for our lives. That’s a lifelong process that unfolds as we follow Him daily.
Somehow, you have to make a commitment to get better every day, no matter how successful you were the day before.
Pat Summitt 1Pat Summit, Reach for the Summit (NY: Broadway Books, 1998), chapter 12.
Pat Summitt (American women’s college basketball head coach accrued 1,098 career wins, the most in NCAA basketball history. She served as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012). Pat lived out “much prayer and perseverance” on and off the court. Pat was diagnosed with the early onset of Alzheimer’s at 59. She passed away at 64, June 2016.
Excerpt from CP (Christian Post):
Quote from Pat Summitt’s son, Tyler, about his mother: “For 64 years, my mother first built her life upon a strong relationship with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.” Summitt wrote in the statement. “Her foundation was also built upon love of her family and of her players, and love of the fundamentals of hard work which reflected her philosophy that ‘you win in life with people.'”
The Faith of Basketball Legend Pat Summitt: God Gave Me ‘Certain Work to Do’
To read more about Pat Summitt’s life go to the link below:
http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-faith-of-basketball-legend-pat-summitt-god-gave-me-certain-work-to-do-165832/
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