Role of a Lifetime by James Brown & Nathan Whitaker & Tony Dungy

Author:James Brown & Nathan Whitaker & Tony Dungy [BROWN, JAMES]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SPO015000
ISBN: 9780446558044
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2009-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

My concluding thought on this is my most important.

I don’t think it’s possible to reach one’s highest potential without a life rooted in Christ.

Applying these ingredients will lead to success, absolutely, for the principles are true. Even those who don’t believe or are not people of faith can apply these and achieve worldly success. However, I have come to believe, that my potential—your potential—as the human being who God created, won’t ever be fully realized without God within you and walking with you. The role, or roles, I was meant to fulfill in my lifetime can never be achieved to their fullest without a relationship rooted in Christ. I may accomplish great things in the eyes of the world, but in the eyes of the only One who matters, I will have fallen short without Him in my life helping and guiding me in the role I was meant to play in my journey.

Having said that, let me be very clear and very open and honest with you—I’m not where He wants me yet. I don’t know that I will ever be. My personal relationship and walk with Christ—starting in my late 20’s—has been a journey of learning, reaching, and continually falling short. I have, on too many occasions, fallen off the right path only to have to pick myself up—or perhaps it was Him picking me up—and get back on the path to try again. I have made mistakes along the way that I should not have made—and as to which in my quieter moments I knew better. The last thing I am suggesting is that I am some kind of expert on a life rooted in Christ and what it should look like. I’m not.

I’ve made some good decisions in my life too—and I’m sure He was smiling down on me for making them at the time. But I’ve made a lot of mistakes, a lot of wrong decisions. Things which did not honor Him.

My hope is that you will take something away from my sharing of some of those mistakes in my life, the heartache and turmoil they caused, and the struggles to get back on the better path He calls me to—as well as from some of the things I’ve done right. If that occurs and helps you in your journey through life, I will be blessed and humbled.

There is a scene in the Old Testament book of Joshua that I love. Moses, the great leader of the Israelites has just died, having never reached the Promised Land. And now we find Joshua, standing on the banks of the Jordan River as God’s next annointed leader.

Three times God tells him to be strong and courageous (see Joshua 1:6,7, 9) and also gives him the recipe for the rest of his journey and that of God’s people whom Joshua has been appointed to lead.

In Joshua 1:8, God states, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and

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