Before continuing my pre-Easter reading of the Book of John this morning, I was thinking of how—to my detriment, in most cases—I see potential in nearly everything and everyone. (I think it’s a Pollyanna-related thing!)
Potential Involves My Plans
It hit me in an “aha-moment” kind of way that looking at potential is, for me, generally a way of envisioning how my plans would look if they were carried out—either in myself or in others. I thought about it far too long this morning and added “focusing only on potential” to my “part-of-me” elements that I need to lay on the altar before my God.
This very thing seemed to play out in the early verses of John chapter five: a man had been ill for thirty-eight years, and as he lay by the healing pool of Bethesda, he saw the potential that its water held. In fact, he even tried to avail himself of it to fulfill his own plan for healing but could never make it into the water on his own.
Christ’s Power Includes Possibilities
But then Jesus came! When the man received the power of Christ’s healing, he was not only healed of his illness but great possibilities were now before him. In fact, Scripture tells us elsewhere that “with God, all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26, NIV)!
Because he had the power of Christ, the potential of his plans turned into actual possibilities!
Lord, may I change my focus today from potential (in myself and others) that suits my plans to a focus on Your power and the possibilities that it offers!
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