July 13, 2021
Tuesday
View From the Summit
Genesis 24:10-15
And he said O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.”
Genesis 24:12
In Genesis 24, the patriarch Abraham sent his servant on a mission to find a bride for Isaac, and all along the way the servant pleaded with God for success, knowing the only true success we experience in life comes from prayer and perseverance. God did give the servant success, and Isaac received his bride.
In her book Reach for the Summit, former Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summit 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.”1God 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.
A point to ponder…
Somehow, you have to make a commitment to get better every day, no matter how successful you were the day before.
Pat Summit
Read the Bible through in a year
Proverbs 1-3
I love you!!!
1Pat Summit, Reach for the Summit (NY: Broadway Books, 1998), chapter 12.
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