Have you ever wondered, or felt like you have wasted a lot of time? Or felt like you have not accomplished much with the life that God has given you?

You may (or others have) recognized your potential. However, how to transition from potential to achieving goals seems to allude you.

Potential, by definition, is having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.

Capacity, by definition, is the ability or power to do, experience, or understand something.

Fortunately, there is hope. Change is possible. The most important thing you need is to recognize that you are stuck. You are in a loop that will follow you through your life, unless you take steps to make a change.

From this point of self awareness, the next logical step is to repent. Sincerely ask God to forgive you. Why? Because it also speaks to your level of commitment – to God and doing his work. Once you have repented, ask God to help you make different choices.

This is a clean slate for you.

Change. By definition, change is the act or instance of making or becoming different

God has designed us for greatness (Psalms 139.14). We are full of potential to achieve, succeed, overcome, inspire, and endure for the cause of Christ. God has given us capacity to expand and be enlarged. It is our duty to seek after God, to study his word, then to put that word into action through faith. This takes commitment.

Change begins with making different choices. If we do what we have always done, we will get what we always got. We most consistently do this every day. Be mindful and consider what you are doing. Make a choice that will push you in the direction you in which you need to go.

Choice is important to God. God made us free will moral agents. In Joshua 24:15, we are instructed to choose who we will serve. God does not want to force or make you do anything. He wants to be your choice – everyday. This seems easy, because we all feel that we do this with ease. And to some degree that is true. But moving from potential to achievement requires a deeper level of commitment. It requires new choices that cost more from us. Luke 12:48 tells us “to whom much is five, much is required.”

Your new deeper choices will cause the change in your life that you are seeking. But it will also require a closer relationship with God. It is important to understand we cannot change on our own. We need the power of God to sustain us. This is key because our flesh will always want to go back to our old familiar ways. Only God can keep us on the path that brings glory to him.

Change is possible. With God, all things are (Matthew 19:26).