Potential

I am big on making goals that push me to learning and make me become a better person. Its fun. Anyway, one of my goals that I want to do every month for a long time is study a person in the Bible for a month or an old evangelist. For example, for the month of November I will be studying the life of Charles G. Finney. For the month of December I will study the life of Moses. Then January maybe the life of Elijah and February the life of Aimee Simple McPherson and so forth.

I want to push myself to a level I've never been to before. I was in chapel one day and I just had this feeling that "God, there has to be more than this. I feel like there is deeper place in my Christian walk that I can get to." We had evaluations for internship and basically the lady told me that I wasn't reaching my full potential. She said there was more to my abilities than I giving. I thought about it and I had/have no idea how to unlock this hidden potential.

In basketball my old gym coach always told me that I was so much better than I was playing. He saw this potential in me but I didn't know how to unlock it or reach it. My junior year, my coach took us into his office and told us what he expected from us. He told me that I was the best pure shooter that was on the team. That might not seem like anything but it pushed me into a new level. I started to believe it. At the end of my junior and senior seasons I was awarded best fg%, and free throw %. My senior year I ended up beating the school record of best free throw %. It wasn't because I was the best shooter but it was because he believed in me and pushed me to a new level. He told me my senior year that I was the best defender on the team and I guarded a 6'8" kid and held him to 4 points in the first half. I was in no way good enough to defend this kid but my coach believed in me and pushed me to a new level.

My whole life I have been told I have potential but I don't know how to unlock it or get into it or whatever. So the only thing I know to do is try and push myself to a new level and believe in myself. It is easy to believe in other people and see them doing great things, but you need to start seeing it for yourself.

You all have potential. Start pushing yourselves to reach a new level. If you don't feel anything you need to start doing something. Just like when you lift weights, you start stretching the muscles and they become sore and you can feel it. It hurts sometimes for long periods of time and is uncomfortable, but at the end you are stronger than you were. In your spiritual life get to a place where you are stretching, you can feel it, its hard, uncomfortable. DO SOMETHING! "I like what you're doing wrong rather than what you're not doing at all"- Wayne Northup. If you want to grow you first have to stretch. Maybe if you don't feel anything you are just going through the motions.

What are ways that you can begin to stretch yourself? What makes you uncomfortable?
Sharing your faith? Praying out loud at meetings or Bible study? Leading Bible study? Sharing your ideas with people? Sharing your testimony? Talking to someone in class? Apologizing for your wrong, even if you aren't in the wrong? Telling someone how you value them and what you value about them? Be vulnerable?

Think about it and step out and stretch yourself! You are a world changer! UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL!