Movie credits can eat up as much as ten minutes of a film’s total run time.
Writers devote pages to bibliographies to give credit to quoted sources.
We can’t steal other people’s ideas without their permission. In 2018, Golden Age actress Olivia de Havilland, age 101, sued the makers of a new movie claiming she wasn’t consulted before personal moments of her life were splashed across the screen.
We run a risky game when we fail to acknowledge the people who help us rise above our circumstances and find success in life.
Philippians 3:13-15 gives us Paul’s viewpoint on his success.
“Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.”
Success to Paul was the call of Christ. He gave his Savior all the credit. The footwork might have been Paul’s, but the achievements belonged wholly to Jesus.
The credit for our triumphs should always point to Christ.
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