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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Dr. Wierwille shares quotes by Vince Lombardi on the successes of being "No. 1" in football. Then Dr. Wierwille shares: WHAT IT TAKES TO BE GOD'S BEST -- First, you have to have it to be God's best - heart and head. Topic: God's Best - God First - Quotes - Vince Lombardi Format: Typed Unverified Pages: 2 Victor Paul Wierwille was a Bible scholar and teacher for over four decades. By means of Dr. Wierwille's dynamic teaching of the accuracy and integrity of God's Word, foundational class and advanced class graduates of Power for Abundant Living have learned that the one great requirement for every student of the Bible is to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Thus, his presentation of the Word of God was designed for students who desire the in-depth-accuracy of God’s Word. In his many years of research, Dr. Wierwille studied with such men as Karl Barth, E. Stanley Jones, Glenn Clark, Bishop