Maximizing Your Potential

we live within God’s laws of limitation and, thereby, maximize our potential. Laws and limitations established by a manufacturer for a product are always given to protect and maximize the product’s potential and performance, not to restrict it. Flipping a switch is a helpful way to use electricity. Sticking your finger in a socket is not. Even as you cannot live if you ignore the precautions that govern the safe use of electricity, so you cannot experience the full, abundant life Jesus promises if you disregard the specifications that limit the use of your potential. You must abide by God’s specifications to enjoy the totality of who you are. His laws and commandments are the security that guarantees you will receive all He planned and purposed for your life. A man without God is potential without purpose. A man without God is power without conduction. A man without God is life without living. A man without God is ability without responsibility. That’s a dangerous man. That’s a live wire. > Principles 1. Freedom always has a price. What frees one person may enslave another. 2. Lawlessness defies the standards that govern society. It shows no responsibility toward anyone or anything. 3. Lawlessness results in the loss of existing freedoms, in slavery, and in death. 4. Laws set norms or standards and govern or regulate behavior. 5. Commandments express the will of an authority relative to a law. 6. Demands specify behavior in a specific situation based on previously defined laws and commandments. 7. Violating laws and commandments aborts potential and brings inevitable consequences. 8. Laws and commandments benefit us and have a positive impact on our lives.