What It Takes To Be God's Best
WHAT IT TAKES TO BE GOD'S BEST by Victor Paul Wierwille For a number of years I have wanted to write a short expose' or declaration of what it requires to be your best. I have taught it hundreds of times in many different ways. I will now capsulize the truth for you. Vince Lombardi, for many years the outstanding football coach of the Green Bay Packers, defined in an address, "What It Takes to Be No. 1" in football, the statement "You've got to pay the price....'' ''Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all-the-time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. "There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place.... There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do and to win and to win and to win. "Every time a football player goes out to play his trade he's got to play from the ground up--from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be No. 1 in any business. But more important, you've got to play with your heart- with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. "Running a football team is no different from running any other kind of organization--an army, a political party, a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win." Football is a pastime, a sport. if such dedication and commitment for success are required in a pastime sport, what about the requirements for a far greater game, the game of life? From the poem, "What is The Way Corps?", an adaptation from "The Spirit of the Everlasting Boy," by Henry Van Dyke, first given at the opening of the Corps year, 1970, verse two states:
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and Bachelor of Theology degrees from Mission House (Lakeland) College and Seminary. He studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton Theological Seminary from which he received a Master of Theology degree in Practical Theology. Later he completed his work for the Doctor of Theology degree. Dr. Wierwille taught the first class on Power for Abundant Living in 1953. Books by Dr. Wierwille include: Are the Dead Alive Now? published in 1971; Receiving the Holy Spirit Today published in 1972; five volumes of Studies in Abundant Living— The Bible Tells Me So (1971), The New, Dynamic Church (1971), The Word's Way (1971), God's Magnified Word (1977), Order My Steps in Thy Word (1985); Jesus Christ Is Not God (1975); Jesus Christ Our Passover (1980); and Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed (1982). Dr. Wierwille researched God's Word, taught, wrote, and traveled worldwide, holding forth the acc