I have various opportunities at work, not my core duties but broaden my portfolio of fun, including hosting webinars and presenting them too. Next week is about owning your courage and career. This week, a couple times, I was the moderator for a science fair webinar aimed at an audience of children of our staff. One was about using machine technology to study protein interactions with potential drug molecules, cool. Another was one on making kitchen volcanoes into an experiment testing variables – oh, I know about those! One of the questions I asked was: “what was the temperature of the material? did it turn more cold or hot (exothermic)? What happened to the potential energy from breaking a bond or did one have to put energy in to create a new bond – storing up more potential energy…???

Ah Potential… Potential energy stored up in molecules, in us, in everything…  Potential pulls from what is already here, just a change of form. That’s us too. Life POTENTIAL can be our potential. 

Our potential is to use our energy for the Lord. Potentially, the potential that the Lord puts into us involved His energy to break our chains. Potentially, our potential (once we shake off the broken chains) is to move forward freely…  How much energy did the Lord put into us? Unlimited. How much energy does it take to start a wide path of destruction pitfalls? TOO LITTLE, too easy, too often.  

What if we squander what little energy we have? Well, the Lord knows all about those situations and those people and us as people… HE FORGIVES. Still let us try to avoid them…  We have potential to learn from these misdeeds too – let’s learn and live better.

Here is a list of “oh no’s” from Proverbs 30, Part 2, let’s live better within our own potential:  “There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers; those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth; those whose eyes are ever so haughty, whose glances are so disdainful; those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind. – “The leech has two daughters. ‘Give! Give!’ they cry. – “There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’: the grave, the barren womb, land, which is never satisfied with water, and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!’ 

Ugh!!! I don’t want to fall into that potential – I want to live under and within love from my potential by listening to God. I want to be satisfied, unlike fire. I want to listen to Him like Mary at His feet, then use my potential for Him. Jesus did say: “If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.“

Let’s try to live in love with showing love. God’s purpose puts a lot of potential in us! Let’s use it for Him!

Amen

Psalm 16 by David

Keep me safe, my God,
    for in you I take refuge.

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
    apart from you I have no good thing.”
I say of the holy people who are in the land,
    “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.
    I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods
    or take up their names on my lips.

Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup;
    you make my lot secure.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
    surely I have a delightful inheritance.
I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;
    even at night my heart instructs me.
I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
    With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest secure,
because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
    nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
You make known to me the path of life;
    you will fill me with joy in your presence,
    with eternal pleasures at your right hand.