Are you living up to your spiritual potential?

Often we hear the words "You should live up to your potential." These are  words we use with our children, words that are used in our schools and words used on the job. We are expected to move up and keep moving. If we do not commit to a certain amount of effort at school or on the job we will be left behind. Living up to our spiritual potential is even more important. We have been learning in our Bible studies the importance of being an empty vessel that God can fill and use for His glory.

Often we accumulate things in our vessel and leave very little room for God. Many of the things we  put into our vessels seem so important to us. Often the very "cares" of life will over take us and leave little time for God. 

We have been studying on the life of Stephen in the 6th chapter of Acts. Stephen was a man full (or filled) with the Holy Spirit, full of faith (Acts 6:5 "...and they choose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost). full of wisdom, (Acts 6:3, 10) full of power (Acts 6:8) full of light (Acts 6:15), fullness of vision (Acts 6:55) fullness of love (Acts 7:60) A martyr for the faith (Acts 7:56)  Should we be any less than Stephen? No! God wants each one of us to be full and available for His service. 

Eph. 3:19 "And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be FILLED with all the FULLNESS of God." 

Little by little, day by day,
Little by little, in every way,
Jesus is changing me, He's changing me.
Since I've made an all about face,
I've been living by His grace,
Jesus is changing me.

He's changing me, my blessed Jesus,
I'm not the same person that I used to be.
Sometimes it's slow going,
But there's a knowing,
That one day just like Him I shall be.