652 Life Worth Living

There’s something growing inside of your right now. The growth within you is fertilized by one thing … CRAP. I’m talking about hardships and struggles. Who has some of that crap in their life right now? Always remember my sister, crap is fertilizer. Literally, manure is fertilizer, look up the definition. Fertilizer makes things grow bigger, stronger, faster and better. So wouldn’t the same be true in your life. A little crap like what you’re going through right now makes you grow bigger, stronger, faster and better. Romans 8:18 “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” This scripture is about what God is growing in you right now through this. 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. You are being made better because of this. God allows life to touch us so we can learn and grow and reach our potential. Understand, that is what’s IN you. 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 crap and fail to understand it’s fertilizer. 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. It stinks to be in the middle of all the crap. 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 crap was fertilizer, what we thought was just 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 life I chose to live. I want the gap between the two to be so minimal you have to use a magnifying glass. Don’t you want the same? I don’t have time for regret here on Earth and I don’t want an ounce of it in Heaven. I know you feel the same. You don’t want to regret the life you lived. You don’t want to look back and realize you played it safe and missed out on all God had availabl...