THE ABORTION OF POTENTIAL IS THE DEATH OF THE FUTURE, THE DEATH OF A SEED IS THE BURIAL OF A FOREST.

We all have a different view of the definition of potential, of what we are capable of, this is formed throughout our life based on our belief systems and conditioning which leads to our ultimate perception of reality. We need to determine what we are truly capable of. What could you do if you really applied yourself? Thomas Edison said, “If we did everything we were capable of we would literally astound ourselves”. He obviously had a high standard in the definition of potential.

Along the way you may ask, what could I do if you really wanted to? Could I find a way to do if I were truly committed? What could my definition of potential be if I just decided? The answer is basically anything. You might have been conditioned throughout your life with statements such as “be realistic” or “get a real job” and so on. If you haven’t done so already, now is the time to banish those thoughts and forget they even exist; you need to pretend (if you don’t truly believe) that you have a genie that has granted you unlimited wishes.

If this was based purely on imagination and you were writing a fairytale, what would you choose to include? What would your definition of potential truly be? Forget about what is possible based on what you believe, just think, “well if it were possible I would want…” just pretend you are creating the ideal fantasy. Forget about rules and about what the world at large says and does. Forget about the presuppositions on what mainstream thinking believes is the real definition of potential.

If you want to be a multi-billionaire coming from a poor background then so be it, don’t write off your capability to do so. If you want to eliminate world hunger then go for it, there must a strategy that you could apply if you looked hard enough and used your imagination. You might want a number of enormous things to happen in your life but they are so outrageous that you really don’t even think about it, well now is the time to pretend for a moment that there is a way to achieve these things, you just need to stay committed enough to find it or create it.

Now is the time to pretend there are no limits to the things you can do, have, change and experience. What is there to lose? It won’t kill you. Are you afraid to get your hopes up? Well that kind of thinking leads to greater disappointment than if you aim outrageously high and only make it three quarters of the way.

Here is a complete, integrated, principles-centered approach to releasing the awesome potential trapped   within you. If you are frustrated by your dreams, ideas, and visions, this article will show you a step-by-step pathway to releasing your potential and igniting the wheels of purpose.

Each of us comes into this world with an assignment to fulfill. God commissions us to leave for the following generations something from which they can learn and be inspired. The abilities to complete these assignments lie within us. The tools are our natural talents, gifts and ambitions. Unless you accept the responsibility for activating your abilities, the next generation will enter the museum of life and notice a vacant space in earth's displays. The sign below the placed reserved to display the fruit of your potential will read: 'Assignment unfinished. Potential unreleased.' 'The price of greatness is responsibility.' These words were spoken by Sir Winston Churchill. They contain a truth that should be guarded and heeded. The graveyards are full of great men and women who never became great because they did not give their ability responsibility. This untapped ability is called potential. Each of us comes into the world pregnant with unlimited potential. We are capable of much more than we have already done. Unless we expose, during the course of our lives, all that God placed within us for the good of mankind, our potential will be aborted.

The graveyards are full of great men and women who never became great because they did not give their ability responsibility. Abortion is one of today's most controversial issues. It is polarizing many communities. It has also become a hot political issue in many countries where it is used to manipulate the reins of power. Many people think of this concern as a recent one. Although it is causing much stir in our societies, the concern over abortion is not new. The truth is that the abortion issue is as old as time. The fact of abortion is as old as man.

Abortion is not limited to the physical termination of a fetus in a mother's womb. The first act of abortion was performed in the Garden of Eden when the first man, Adam, was given the responsibility for carrying the entire human race within his loins. In Adam was the seed of all generations and the strength of all mankind. God's instructions to Adam were very simple and clear: You are free to eat from every tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die (Genesis 2:16-17).

To surely die means to definitely cease from manifesting the fruitfulness that exists within a thing. Death, in its simplest form, is the termination of potential. To abort means to terminate life before its full potential has or can be realized, before the person, animal, plant, etc. is given an opportunity to fulfill its full potential.

Death, in its simplest form, is the termination of potential. God created everything with the hidden ability to fulfill itself. The Bible's record of creation states that the seed of everything is in itself to produce after its kind (Genesis 1:12). All creation possesses the hidden ability to be everything it is suppose to be: In every seed there is a forest, in every fish, a school, in every bird, a flock, in every cow, a herd, in every girl, a woman, in every boy, a man, and in every man, a nation. It is important for us to remember that every great tree was once a seed, every woman was once a fetus, every man was once a boy, and every nation was once in the loins of a man. It is also interesting to note that whenever God deals with man, He always speaks in terms of the generational seed within his loins. In God's calculation of life, one equals many, little equals much, small equals great, and less equals more. Therefore, to abort a seed is to kill a forest, to abort a cow is to kill a herd, to abort a boy is to kill a man, to abort a girl is to kill a woman, and to abort a man is to destroy a nation. God told Abraham, the great patriarch of history, I will make you a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great and you will be a blessing.   ...and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you (Genesis 12:2-3). Abortion is the ultimate tragedy. It robs life of its essence and denies the future its value.

Abortion is the ignorance of responsibility and the denial of obligation. Abortion is self-comfort at the expense of fruitfulness, because all abortions sacrifice responsibility. The abortion of potential condemns the future. This reality has caused the development of an entire discipline of science. Ecology and environmental studies, as these areas of concern are known, build their premises on the word extinction, meaning 'the termination of the potential force within creation to fulfill itself.'

Abortion is the ignorance of responsibility and the denial of obligation. It is amazing that man, with all his attempts to minimize the abortion of various species in the animal and plant kingdom by investing billions of dollars to protect animals, plants, forests and the ozone layer, has neglected to prioritize the position of human beings in the scheme of things. While man fights to protect whales, owls, trees and fish, he also battles for the right to terminate human babies. Perhaps the situation would improve if every doctor who performs this tragic operation would be reminded before each abortion that the opportunity to perform this surgery is his only because his mother did not abort him.

The abortion issue is, therefore, not just a problem of the taking of a life, though that is the fatal end result. Even more, abortion is the ignorance and the lack of understanding of the principle of potential that pervades our world. The majority of those who die each year are guilty of abortion because they didn't understand the basic relevance of the concept of potential to their individual lives.

The abortion of potential is the death of the future. It affects generation after generation. When Adam broke God's law, he aborted his seed's potential for becoming all they were intended to be. Men and women throughout all ages have fallen far short of the glory of the Creator. The word glory means the 'true nature' or 'full essence' of a thing. In other words, to fall short of glory means to live below your true potential. This is what God calls sin. Sin is not a behavior; it is a disposition. One of the great biblical writers states it this way: I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for [the glory of] the sons of God to be revealed (Romans 8:18-19). This passage states that the fall of man prevented the full glory or true potential of mankind from being revealed or manifested. All creation was affected by man's sin. God's creation is waiting for man's glory or true potential to be exposed because creation's destiny is tied to man's. Thus, any abortion, whether it's the abortion of a dream, a vision, art, music, writing, business, leadership or inventions, affects both nature and the succeeding generations of man. How many children yet unborn were destined to sing the song you have never written?

When Adam aborted the vision God had placed in his heart and disobeyed the directives of the Manufacturer, he changed the lives of the entire human race that lay hidden in his loins. The book of Romans states: Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned [in Adam]... Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men (Romans 5:12, 18).

It is vital that we understand the principle demonstrated in these passages. It is the awesome realization that if your potential is not released, it will affect this generation and all the generations of man yet to live. Even creation will testify against you. If you abort your potential, you will be guilty of robbing the world of the treasure you came to this planet to deliver. The fact that you were born is evidence that God knew earth needed the potential you are pregnant with. It is, therefore, imperative that you refuse to leave this planet without giving birth to those dreams, ideas, visions and inventions you carry in the womb of your faith right now. Do not abort your baby of potential. Rob the grave of the treasure you carry. Leave the picture of your potential on the wall of history in the museum of the earth.

SUMMERY

1. Your released potential is the world's inheritance.

2. You came into the world pregnant with unlimited potential.

3. You are capable of much more than you have already done.

4. Creation's destiny is tied to the release of your potential.

5. The fact that you were born is evidence that God knew earth needed the potential you are pregnant with.