Have you ever asked yourself if you’ve done anything to ‘validate’ your birth and potential? I will always argue that I believe we all are born with potential. Do you believe this? The next question is – do you know what your potential is related to? Are you fulfilling it? One of the first pieces of evidences to your answer to those 2 questions are: does being you make you feel pleased with you? If not, then your potential is not being actualized.
Passion. Whatever your passion is will be highly related to your potential. There are those who believe that if it is something that is meaningful to us that this would not be God’s will for our life. The argument is that if we are able to accomplish (fill in the blank) then the Lord doesn’t get the glory because it is in our own effort then ….
One: do you really believe the Lord is that vain? Answer – no. Two: would the Lord waste what He’s already placed in us. Answer- no.Third: wherever in scripture is there evidence supporting that view. Answer – none. I would argue that the Lord is honored when we deflect our praise to Him. When we are doing what’s in our hearts to the best of our ability, then we are validating who we are and why we are where are. I believe the Lord is honored when we act as His representatives and make that a known part of who we are. In other words, when we witness to the world we live in, Whose we are and why.
Passion, Potential, and Validation occur as we express and grow in Him to become all we can be. But I don’t believe validation occurs apart from our passion and potential. When we submit to the potter all we are then He can make us vessels that has His imprint in our lives. He tells us that apart from Him we can do nothing (John 15;5)… but why would we want to? He equips and enables us to be our best, we are always a work in progress, and as we bring to Him all that we have and are – our lives are enhanced and enriched because we can be fruitful – which is fulfilling.
The goal for this mindset is found in Colossians 1:19, AMP
“…so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord [displaying admirable character, moral courage, and personal integrity], to [fully] please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily
growing in the knowledge of God [with deeper faith, clearer insight and fervent love for His precepts];”
With is as a foundation then passion and potential have their expression and we are validated.
