Do you remember the preschool song "I Am A Promise"? I do! It goes...I am a promise, I am a possibility, I am a promise, with a capital P and I can be anything, anything God wants me to be. (I bet some of you are singing that as you read it; aren't you? I know you are because I was singing it while I typed it! heehee). Did you know that we are not only a promise but we are potential? Yep, sure are!
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As I was driving into work this morning I was listening to a cd that a friend gave me. It was the Sunday morning service at the Church of the Highlands and Pastor Chris Hodges was describing God. In the midst of his sermon he made one statement that caught my attention and naturally, my mind began to race. I couldn't even remotely listen to anything else he was saying because I was stuck on that one thing. He said that God created everything with the potential to reproduce. Hmmm...what do you think about that?
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During creation God said, "Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came...God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind...Then God blessed them saying “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth...Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals...God created human beings...God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground." Genesis 1:11, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28 (NLT).
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Inside every acorn is the potential for another oak tree and inside that acorn is the potential for another oak tree so that means that with the very first oak tree that God every spoke into being he shoved the potential for a go-zillion oak trees. Inside every fish is the potential to produce another fish and inside that fish is the potential to produce another fish so that means that with the very first fish that God ever spoke into being he instilled the potential to produce a go-zillion fish! Now, inside every human there is the potential to produce another human and inside that human is the potential to produce another human so that means way back when he created Adam and Eve he knew that we would be here right now doing what we are doing.
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Everything was created with potential...possibility....a promise! God is so big! You know what? We spend so much time trying to understand God and understand why he did this and that. We question every little thing. I wonder what we would all be like if we began to try and wrap our heads around our own potential instead of trying to wrap our heads around God's potential? You know a cat never questions it's purpose. It just prisses along, meowing, sleeping, playing. A dog never questions why God did this or that. He just lays on the porch growling at whomever passes by. He just lives up to his potential. A bird flies. A fish swims. The trees blow in the wind. But, what do we as humans do? God put us on this earth to reign over all the fish, the birds, the wildlife but maybe we need to take a step back and learn from them. They live up to their potential. Do we?
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