Think Again!

Chapter 7: The Son’s Potential • 73

No Limitations In Jesus In the world, you are limited by your competencies: money, education, experience, power, and influence. In the Kingdom of Christ, you have unlimited potential. The world needs those in power, but in the Kingdom, Jesus can operate in anyone: the poor, those who mourn, the meek, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and the persecuted. These are the kind of people God used in the Bible. These are the kind of people he uses today to produce a return on his investment. If you feel pushed around and battered by the circumstances of life, you may be desperately looking to escape, living in constant fear that more bad things might happen. You may fear there are icebergs waiting to sink you. But because of Jesus’s potential, you can become a person who experiences the difficulties of life while being unfazed by them. Your joy can come from an unchanging relationship with God and his faithfulness. You don’t need perfect circumstances to be happy. You don’t need to be appreciated by others to be content. You can be forged in such a way that you develop a hull that no iceberg can penetrate. Jesus is our example. He appears to have walked unstressed and unhurried. His peaceful pace implies that he measured himself by a different criteria. It was not where he was going and how fast to get there, but whom he was following and how closely they walked together. 42 In order to become effective vessels of living water, you have to be forged, crafted, shaped, conformed, and molded to be like him. In the flesh, you are like a scrapheap of metal. But you can be reshaped and forged into nozzles that deliver living water from the Christ-reservoir, offering refreshment to thirsty people