When I was Indianapolis this past June I got the opportunity to meet Tony Dungy, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. He was signing copies of his book, Quiet Strength. Seeing as buying a copy of the book would give me the opportunity to shake his hand and talk to him for all of about 1 minute, i gave in and purchased a copy. I got in line and got up to him and sopke with him for just moment and he signed the book and that was that. But then I was very interested in what the book was about so I read it, and man was it incredible. I would highly recomend the book to anyone and everyone wether you are a die-hard NFL fan or don't know how man points a touchdown is worth. The faith of this man is one that is inspiring and motivitating.
As I was getting to the end of the book and Mr. Dungy was wrappin it up a quote stopped me dead in my reading. He wrote that "God has not called me to be sucessful-just faithful" This struck me in a tremendous way. I always think that I have to be sucessful in life. To reach for the top in everything and that if I don't earn a bunch of money and am high up on the ladder then I'm not legit. But this is not at all what God has called me to do. He has not called me to be the spotlight of everything or to be sucessful in EVERYTHING that I do. All God wants me to be is faithful to Him. God blessed Tony Dungy in many ways and with a lot of sucess-winning the Super Bowl and having one the best football programs in the NFL. However, after reading his book it was evident that he didn't strive to be successful, he strove to be fairthful and God blessed him with success.
I think the world tells us all the time that we aren't anything if we aren't "successful", but God tells us something totally different.
Matthew 6:33"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you"Success is never promised, but faithfulness is blessed!
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