Secret of Success
Theme of the Week: So Who's Your Timothy?
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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Key Bible Verse: "The student who is fully trained will become like the teacher" (Luke 6:40) Bonus Reading: 2 Timothy 3:10-11, 14
My brother-in-law Scott is one of the most successful voice actors in Hollywood. I noticed that Scott had grown up with several other men who are still his good friends today. All of them are successful in their fields. For instance, one man is part owner of a rapidly growing national trucking company and another is a successful movie producer. They're all good men with healthy, happy marriages and families.
I asked Scott one day why he thought that all the men he'd grown up with were so successful today. It seems fairly rare that one boy out of a group of friends attains the kind of success in life that these men have had, much less that all of them have.
The biggest reason, Scott replied, was that they were all raised by a group of involved fathers and other male mentors within the church they attended. They were all taught, encouraged, and held accountable by a group of good men. Bingo! It's that simple.
Every man who has succeeded at anything has had a mentor or mentors in his life. We've all had help along the way. Good help influences us one direction; bad help steers us in another.
—Rick Johnson in The Power of a Man
My Response: Good influences for which I'll thank God today include …
Thought to Apply: A father who teaches his children responsibility provides them with a fortune. —source unknown
Adapted from The Power of a Man (Revell, 2008) by permission.
Copyright © 2009 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Thank you, Jesus, for the priority you gave to building faith in the lives of a few men. Help me to follow your example.
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