HEARTLIGHT(R) Magazine: Two Minute Meditations: Sweet Success


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our best is more than personal achievement. Success is knowing God has a plan and has called me to fit into His plan. Success is the character forged on the journey to grow into God’s person, the person He made me to be. Success is blessing others in ways He would bless them—to give something back and not just take from others.

Using this definition, most of the greatest successes in life are people the headlines will never trumpet. But we know them! Like the para-athaletes in Atlanta this past week, they are the best they can be. They bless others through their character, kindness, and faithfulness. They serve as examples because they do it for the thrill of the journey to be their best. Let’s not let their examples be wasted. Let’s be our best, too!

To spur you on to true success, I want to encourage you to do two things:

Write one of your true life personal heroes a note of thanks and tell them how they’ve blessed our life. This is not some media figure you admire, but someone you’ve personally known. They may even be someone no one else recognizes as a hero, but in your mind, they live up to the true definition of success: they’ve known their purpose for being here, they’ve lived up to that purpose, and they’ve blessed others along the way.
I want to encourage you to use the following guide as you begin a weekly training regimen to be the best you can be for God.
- Each Sunday, the first day of the week, commit to being your best for God’s glory:
  
  “O Lord God, maker of the magnificent and wondrous universe, I thank you for making me and knowing me, even when I was in my mothers womb. I commit today, and this week, to live for your glory. I will be my best to Your honor and glory. Trusting in the power of Your Spirit, I will honor You. Amen.”
- Write down in one short sentence what you believe your role is in God’s work for this coming week.
- Write down one barrier/sin you want to overcome, or write down one positive or kind deed you want to do, which will help you be more the person God made you to be.
- Write down the name of one specific person you will pray for each day and you will seek to do a kind deed to/with during the coming week.

“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, by His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory … forever and ever! Amen.” — Ephesians 3:20-21