Reaching Your Potential

“Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.” Philippians 4:8

Your mind will give you pretty much what you feed it. Paul says you need to fill your mind with spiritual realities from the Word of God if you want to reach the potential which God has given you. Remembering to set your mind on things above is a matter of the will. You decide that. But what will guarantee success, you ask?

“For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3

“May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?....Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:2, 4

How will you know that you are reaching your potential? When your life is characterized less and less by those things which bring God’s displeasure and more and more by what characterizes the new you in Christ: compassionate, kind, humble, gentle, patient, caring, forgiving, loving, full of peace. Interesting, isn’t it, that these are byproducts of knowing Christ in His fulness. Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

Set your mind on things above. Become who God intends you to be. This meditation will prove hazardous to your old self.