How To Pass On Potential (2)
Hey Friends,
Today let’s look at the second reason so many pass on their potential. The word for today is TIME. The road to reaching our potential takes our whole life. We are far too short-sighted to think of something that requires our whole life. We want it right now and it is not going to happen. Sorry, but this is not a box you can ever check off because it is completed. Potential is a process, not an event!
To reach your potential will require time – your focused energy on growing daily. Decisions you make daily to grow just a little. Decisions we talked about yesterday that take up your time. We all get 24 hours in each day and you get to choose how you spend them. We all know that God requires 10% of our income and we will give an account for that, but how do we overlook the fact that we will also give an account for how we spend, invest, or waste our time? You can get more money but you don’t get more time. Once time is used it is over and done, never to be relived again.
I often hear people say, “I wish I had more time.” Have you ever found 30 minutes laying on the sidewalk? Of course not! You must pick your priorities and that will determine how you spend your time.
So, if you review your calendar what will it reveal about your priorities? How do you spend your time? What, or who, gets the best part of your day? Where is God scheduled into your time? If you do not set your own priorities and schedule someone will be glad to do it for you. Let Jesus lead your schedule, and I hope He gets the best hour of your day.
Just a thought if you want to make reaching your potential a reality instead of a pipe dream.
Pastor
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What a great subject! Thanks for challenging us Pastor!
If we were to take this seriously, we would spend less time talking and more time walking – I am referring to a verse that challenges me to my core:
1 John 2:5-6 “But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.”
This requires so much time that it can overwhelm us if we look at the magnitude of living this command. Our excuse is always “but nobody is perfect” and to that I say look at Paul. He grew in faith and relationship to God to the point that he yielded every minute of his life to God. I think he did this by taking God at his name “I AM”. For me this means “right now” is when I must allow God to use me and provide the desire and power to follow him. Not tomorrow or sometime in the future.
I know this all sounds too hard, but would God command us to do something that could not be achieved?
I know that I am not yet there and not even close, but if I can just yield every minute of my life to him, he can make me the perfect servant that he intended for me to be.
Great, great blog today. I loved the part about how it’s not an item we can check off the list as completed. I truly believe it can be healthy to have goals that are never attainable such as this.
I also like how we all have 24 hours a day; it’s up to us how to spend it.
Great words.
When reading or hearing anything about the potential that we have because of Gods love and plan for our lives I can’t help but to think about a favorite song of mine as a child (and to be honest as an adult too!). I am a promise, I am a possibility, I am a promise with a capital P, I am a GREAT BIG bundle of potentiality! I CAN go any where that He wants me to go, I CAN be anything that he wants me to be, I am a great big promise you see! Gods plan for our lives truly is bigger and better than we could ever imagine, oh the potential that is there if we only follow Him where He wants to take us!
Ever thought about “tithing you time” since one could argue that it is the greatest resource we have? 2.4 hours every day, devoted to God, that would be a challenge! I would argue in many ways, tithing our money is much simpler because the only time it requires is literally the amount of time it takes to pay it online or write the check and drop it in the envelope. People can be much more selfish with their time. Money comes and goes but time only goes….
Good word bro. I need that reminder:) I always say “if i just had more time”.