Potential

Lately I've been near cripplingly focused on my shortcomings:

1. Things I'm not doing but should
2. Things I'm doing but shouldn't
3. How I don't measure up to others
4. Things I need to fix in my life

And the list is very long, and very detailed in my head.

This morning as I was pondering it struck me that God's desire for us to repent, to change, to improve is rooted in our potential, not in our shortcomings. He doesn't want us to become better because we are terrible, but because we are capable of so much.

It may seem obvious to some or like an insignificant shift in perspective to others, but I think this change in the way I think about this will help me significantly in many ways.