Possibilities and Potential

When you look at people, what do you see? Do you see potential or do you just see what currently is? The difference between these two perspectives can be substantial. Take Wednesday nights for example; some of the kids we serve are pretty rough around the edges. But, as this church has seen in the past, some of those kids may end up being the pastors and church leaders of the future. When someone fully yields their life to Jesus Christ, amazing things can, and do, happen. From time to time, the kids even sing about it without realizing it:

I am a promise. I am a possibility. I am a promise with a capital "P." I am a great big bundle of potentiality. And I am learnin' to hear God's voice. And I am tryin' to make the right choice. I am a promise to be anything God wants me to be.

While we may think of this as a children’s Sunday School song, there is great truth to it, isn’t there? Even when God’s people were about to face Judgment (i.e. Babylonian Captivity), God still saw potential:

For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29:10-11 ESV)

So, today, I encourage you to look at other people (especially those who rub you the wrong way) and wonder what they could be if they turned their lives over to God. If you look at them considering what God could do, your perspective will change, and you may just find yourself sharing Christ with them. Praise God, He saw potential in all of us!

In His grip,
Pastor Decker