So many of us fail to live up to our potential....
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So many of us fail to live up to our potential. We may get by, even contribute to some degree, but we simply do not perform as well as we can or perhaps should. Remember Sam Bowie? He had a decent career in the NBA, but in the draft class of 1984, he was taken ahead of (and perhaps you may have heard of some of these names) Charles Barkley, John Stockton, and another young basketball player by the name of Michael Jordan. He was passable, yet mediocre, and when you're drafted ahead of probably the greatest basketball player of all time, you are expected to do better.
In this passage from Isaiah, God tells his Servant (the Messiah), "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth" (v. 6). God set the standards for the Messiah higher than simply redeeming one nation. His goal was to reach the whole earth. The fact that we are all here in the Body of Christ shows that Jesus lived up to that expectation.
In this passage from Isaiah, God tells his Servant (the Messiah), "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth" (v. 6). God set the standards for the Messiah higher than simply redeeming one nation. His goal was to reach the whole earth. The fact that we are all here in the Body of Christ shows that Jesus lived up to that expectation.
