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Your ability depends on your response to God’s ability.
The basic principles that apply to the potential of all things also apply to your potential. God, your Source & Creator, is the Definer of your potential.
Because you came from God and share His essence and components, your value and potential are known to Him alone.
Throughout the history of mankind, God has sought to overcome the blindness that sin has brought to our lives. He watches with sadness as His creations discount their potential and doubt their worth. He cries with and for them as they stumble along, missing the many ways He affirms and confirms the valuable persons He created them to be.
The boundaries of what God can accomplish through you were set long before you were born. He planned your days before you had lived even one of them (Psalm 139:16). God wants you to see yourself and your abilities the way He sees you. He puts great value on you and eagerly encourages each step you take toward using even a small part of your talents and abilities. God believes in you. The Bible has much to say about your personal worth and your unique capabilities.
God’s Word on Your Value
The Bible is the story of God’s interaction with man. It contains many promises from God to His people, as well as the demands God makes on those who would live in fellowship with Him. The Bible also reveals how God sees human beings and their capabilities. God, by sending His Son, shows us the value He places on us. His willingness to send Jesus to die for our sins is the proof of how much we are worth.
When you go to the store to buy a product, you don’t put a value on that product. The value of the merchandise was established long before you chose to buy it. When the courtroom of the universe demanded a price for humanity, the value that was placed on the human soul was equal to the death of God. I did not say the value of the death of God was equal to the human soul. I said that the human soul was equal to the value of the death of God. In other words, God said,
“Whatever it costs to restore the fellowship between men and women and Myself, that’s the price I will pay.” It’s not what is paid that gives value to an item, but what it costs. It’s not what is paid that gives value to an item, but what it costs.
Do you understand how much you are worth? You are equal to the value of your Source. You are as valuable as the God you came from. Stop feeling bad about other people’s estimations of your value. You are special. You are worth feeling good about. God’s word on your potential is the only evaluation that counts. You are not what your teacher or your spouse or your children or your boss say about you. You are as valuable and capable as God says you are. If you are going to release your full potential, you must understand and accept the value God places upon you and the confidence He has in your abilities.
God’s Word on Your Potential
Even as God is the One who set your value, so too He is the only One who is qualified to determine the extent of your potential. The possibilities that lie within you are dependent upon God, because the potential of a thing is always determined by the source from which it came. Even as the potential of a wooden table is determined by the strength of the tree from which it was made, so your potential is determined by God, because you came out of God. God’s Word contains numerous statements that clearly define His evaluation of your potential.