A Different Scoreboard

Leading a team to a Super Bowl win is considered the pinnacle of an NFL coach’s profession, and I’m fortunate to have done that. But significance isn’t found in things like winning a Super Bowl—or whatever is the pinnacle of your profession. Significance is found in focusing on the priorities you know are important: doing as good a job as you can do, spending quality time with people you love, and investing yourself in ministry opportunities and influencing others for good. In other words, real success is about doing what God has called you to do as well as you can.

When we figure that out, it sets us free from a lot of pressure. We don’t have to become a billionaire or a celebrity in order to be successful. We need to set our minds on discovering what God has put us here to do and then doing it as well and as faithfully as we can. When our hearts and our actions are true to our callings, God considers us successful. And in the end, His is the only scoreboard that counts.

His Promises

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Submit to God, and you will have peace;

then things will go well for you.

We are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.