The Seed Inside

Romans 12:1-2

There's something buried deep inside of you. It's been there from the beginning and if you're like most people, you are trying to find that thing, develop that thing. It's been your life-long goal up to this point and I might venture to guess that you'll spend most of the rest of your life focused on it. It's your ultimate potential, what you can be. It's the best you you can be...and it starts as a seed.

The problem is, it is not just buried in some dark dry place awaiting the warmth of spring and a good watering, rather it is locked away and we don't have the key to release it!

Sure we can be pretty good, we can get relatively close to that potential on our own with the right circumstances, but our best...is just out of reach.

I've been trying to answer the question this week, "Why Do I Need God?" And this is one of those reasons.

Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. (Romans 12:2, The Message)

God holds the key to seed of our best self. I know that sounds like mixed metaphors, but wait. It's not so simple that God simply unlocks our potential and "poof" there it is! Instead God unlocks it and finds it still in an unfinished form. In other words, God has to unlock it, prepare it, grow and develop it. Yes, God will and wants desperately to do this for you!

Too many people believe that to become a Christian is to become something strange, but the reality of it is, when we bring God into our life, let God begin to work in us, we don't get strange, we get perfected.

With Christ and only Christ, can we reach our full potential.

The seed is already there. Ask God to help it grow!

Peace ><>
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