Potential Realization

UV 3216/10000 Potential Realization

Is the seed still in the barn? As to the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree- they have not produced. Yet from this day on I will bless you.

Haggai 2 v 19

When we walk in the path indicated by the commandments of the Lord or the Word of the Lord, He will bless our days. He establishes His covenant in our lives. He proves Himself true to His promises. He will cause the seed or the goals and ideas that we have to germinate, to grow , to bear fruit and multiply. Yet our commitment to the Lord should not be contingent only on receiving these blessings from the hand of the Lord. As it is written in the book of Habakuk- “ Though the fig tree, the fruit trees, though the fields produce no crops, though there is no herd in the stalls, yet will I choose to rejoice in the Lord, to exult in His salvation. ”. It does not mean that God is not faithful to His word but that we value our salvation by grace, by faith in Jesus, more than any blessing in this world.

We live by faith and not by sight. Even if many things in our lives have not reached their full potential and remain only in seed form or as the Word of God, we believe in the Lord. We are sure of the things He has promised us and He will bring it to pass in due time. He will send the rain or shower of His blessings in due time, not early, not late. Meanwhile, we wait with patience and praise and thanksgiving. When the Lord provides us heavenly food we are not going to complain we do not have meat or earthly food or food and drink for our bodies. Like St Paul we have learnt to live joyfully and in faith in plenty and in sufficiency and in want.

We hold onto the promise of the Lord to bless us from the day we committed our lives to Him. We trust that He will do good unto us in all the days to come and forever in eternity. We do not place any earthly good above the Lord. Unlike the first man and woman, we will not choose knowledge over wisdom, the visible, tangible, substantial temptations over the unseen blessings. We will not follow the words of the enemy or of our fellow humans over the Word of God. Our brains or minds are the barns or storehouses of our ideas, projects, plans while our hearts are the barns or storehouses of our emotions or feelings. When we commit our hearts to the Lord, we are covenanting with Him to bring out of our barns only the good seed He has stored there and not the weeds of pride, lust, jealousy, hatred. When we commit our plans and ideas out of the storehouse or barns, we are covenanting with Him to bring out only the worthy ideas and projects. By the end of our days on Earth, all the good seed in our barns should be sown, put to use, grown to fruition or full potential in the Lord. As Jesus explained a seed grows by first dying to itself and then resurrecting from that death to live for God. Likewise, we need to die to the world and live for the Lord.