Maximum Potency

Okay, so I’ve been slacking on the blog front…

This is just a short blurb on something I talked about at church a while back that came back to my mind the other night.  We had a Sunday School program probably about a year ago, and I was one of the topic speakers.  My topic was something like “Reaching Your Maximum Potential”.  As I studied my topic, I looked up the word potential, and as I was reading about the etymology, the root word potent came up. 

The potency of a substance has to do with the concentration of the active ingredients.  The more dilluted the substance is, the less powerful or effective it can be, and the more quantity is required to accomplish the desired result (think liquid laundry detergent, ha-ha).

So, when we talk about our potential, we our dealing with our capacity to do and to be more than we are right now.  We are made of powerful stuff, in the image of the Almighty, who does all things well.  He placed inside of us the strength, intelligence, ingenuity, talent, and skill to do far more than we even imagine.  Those are pretty potent ingredients!  Over time, though, we become dilluted and watered down by events and people in our lives assigned to kill or pervert our God-given inspiration to be absolutely all that we were created to be.   Things like fear and low self-esteem enter our lives and cause us to second guess who we really are, and whether we can really do all that we dream.

So, how do I tap into that innate potency?  Concentration has two meanings that are applicable here.  The concentration of a substance is the removal of all of the fillers and unnecessary ingredients (that laundry detergent analogy again).  In the same sense, we can concentrate our efforts and resources by removing all of the unnecessary things from our lives, resulting in greater concentration in terms of mental focus.  Conversations, friendships, and activities that don’t propel us toward our destiny can all be removed to cause us to be more focused and effective.  Without all of those fillers, I think we will find that though we may not feel we have a lot to work with, the little that we have can be very powerful.  Add to that the supernatural power of God in our lives, undilluted by the many opposing distractions that come to hinder His will, and you have a moutain-moving, enemy-defeating, formula!

I’ll probably come back to this later, because I’m just talking off of the top of my head right now.

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