“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”

A thought by Mark Batterson (2011-01-18) in his book, Soulprint: Discovering Your Divine Destiny (p. 140). Multnomah Books. Kindle Edition.

One of the great benefits to a relationship with GOD is that as our creator HE knows what our real potential is. HE is our greatest fan. HE knows what we can be because HE created us. HE knows what I might have been.

But so much of the time we are controlled by the “it’s too late” attitude. Do you live with a sense of despair because you feel that life has left you behind and there is no way you can catch up? You have so many regrets, so many failures; you’ve made so many mistakes.

In the next paragraph Mark said, “Your mistakes may define your past, but they don’t have to define your present.” That is so important for us to really grab hold of. I don’t care what age you are GOD is not done with you. Your best days are ahead of you if you let HIM transform your mind and give you HIS perspective on what you still can be.

Despair will kill you, dependence will transform you. HE is not through with you if you put your trust in HIM. Life is not over.

Listen, GOD doesn’t make junk. Life can beat us up and throw us out on the junk pile but GOD is in the resurrection business. Yes I know you have been rejected and damaged by life but GOD took Joseph in the Old Testament out of prison and made him a leader in Egypt. Yes I know you are old and your dreams are now impossible but Abraham and Sarah had Isaac when they were in their nineties and he became the father of GOD’s chosen people. Yes I know Paul in the New Testament was thrown also into prison but while there he wrote a big portion of the New Testament that we now have today.

Life is not over until it is over. So what do you need to do to start to fulfill your potential? First of all put your trust in GOD so you can see HIS view of your potential and then do what you need to do to start to fulfill that potential. There will be something for you to do.

So what is it that you want to be now that you have grown up?

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