619 What Is Your Potential?

How often are we just trying to get through one thing to make it to the next thing? How many of our days are we spending consumed with the overwhelming work of it all, hoping one day it won’t be so hard? We hold our breath to get through the day, the week, the rest of the month wishing for easier times ahead. And then we have a year like 2020 where nothing goes as planned and life is turned upside down so we’re all wishing for a restart. Is this what God intended for his finest creation? Suffer and struggle, be slightly miserable and one day it will be over and our reward will be Heaven? Yeah, I’m not buying it. In no way do I believe God’s intention for you and I is to just “get by” while on Earth. I don’t believe he gave us breath so we could breathe shallow and just skim our way through life. I mean look around. Did he create all this beauty here on Earth to leave you miserable, only wishing for Heaven? Why would he make Earth so beautiful if his intentions were for you, his most beautiful and magnificent creation, to merely survive the experience for 80 or 90 years. When will we stop treating life as something we must GET through? Romans 8:18 “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” Look at these words, don’t miss it … Your present sufferings, meaning all the struggles and frustrations you’re going through right now, are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in you. Revealed IN you. Well isn’t that interesting. There is glory that will be revealed IN you. We’re not talking about some destination you will pull up to at the end of your life. No, we’re talking about the glory, which means magnificence and great beauty, that is IN you. There is something glorious and beautiful growing in you right now. You may not see it. You may not feel it. But it’s happening. And it’s happening through the hard stuff. God allows life to touch us so we can learn and grow and reach our potential. Understand, that is what’s IN you … POTENTIAL. This is what God wants to reveal in you. Your potential. The potential he placed within you when he created you. The vision he had for your life from the beginning. He knows what you’re capable of. He knows the life available to you. He knows just what you could do with the days offered to you. The legacy you could leave, the impact you could make, the possibility you could create. But often times you can’t see it. You can’t see your potential, you just see your present sufferings. You see the fire and fail to see how he is refining you. You feel the hammer and chisel and fail to understand he’s knocking off the lumps to reveal what’s always been inside of you. All you know is it hurts to be chiseled away it. It burns to be so close to the fire. The process of reaching your potential is not an easy one, that’s why so few make it. One day we will stand before our creator and he’ll reveal to us what his vision for our life was, and we’ll see the distance between what we did and what we could have done. The comparison of where we went and where we could have gone. The divide between who we became and who we could have become. And in that moment it will all make sense. With the perspective of heaven, we will understand how what we saw as suffering was the refining fire, we will see the hammer and the chisel were freeing us. Oh my sister, what you have WITHIN you is so magnificent and beautiful. There’s glory inside of you and it’s called your God given potential. How bad do you want to live up to it? How bad do you want to taste the life truly available to you? You see, I want to get to heaven and have my creator show me his vision for my life and it be parallel to the li...