"Life is about choices. NOT the Potential. Potential to Greatness is always there but the choices made in life is the one that determines your greatness!" - God
As I asked for examples, God showed a few characters in the bible:
Samson, born with great strength and might, was destined for greatness. He was the judge of Israel but with the choices that he made in life and unwillingness to change, he did not make much impact in the land of Israel.
He was not willing to listen to the Word and went after the women that are not from his own. He was also a lusty and stubborn person who just wanted to please himself. With that weakness, the women that he lusted after were the downfall of his life. Not only did Samson lose his prayer life, he also lost his eyes - his vision.
Samson was a person born for greatness! Blessed with supernatural strength and had the potential to be the greatest judge of Israel. Other than that, he was a man like everyone. He too, was given the choice to choose. However, he did not make up his mind as to where he wants to go in life. In the end, that potential that was deposited in him, was not fully utilised.
Besides Samson, there were others whose life was not fully utilised to fulfill their potential. Another example was Judas, the one who betrayed Jesus.
There are many others in the bible that made correct choices. People like Jabez and David. They were ordinary folks like any one on earth. They were not as strong as Samson or as wise as Solomon. They were not as rich as the rich young ruler too. However, they made right choices with their lives and became history makers and world shakers.
Take King David for example: God called David - A man after God's heart. He chose God instead of the worldly things of the world. Not that he is not a man of the world but he is a man IN the world.
When God showed to King David that he had made the wrong choices, King David changed and repented. He NEVER went back to the wrong choices and continue doing the wrong things and making wrong choices.
Jabez was called by God - A man of Valor! Although he was an illegitimate son, he did not despised himself. He knew that he is nothing by himself. He relied on God and called upon God. He was hungry and thirsty for God. God answered his prayer when he prayed - (1 Choronicles 4: 9)
I am writing this also, to myself. That I can read it whenever I can and meditate on this...
Hope that you, too are blessed!
