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Two of my favourite terms are “potential” and “perspective”. I firmly believe that based on your personal perspective on life you will either cause your potential to become manifest or you will allow your present circumstances to cause your potential to fester, and therefore never become manifest.

How you handle your present circumstance is a true indicator of who you are. 

Whenever I have time, I purchase either a Jet magazine or an Ebony magazine. Usually gracing the cover of such magazines is the face of someone who overcame dire circumstances and pressed his way to success in some field of life.

Basically, I believe that Bermuda is overrun with potential Jet magazine stories.

That is, there are so many who have the potential to overcome their past and become role models in the island of Bermuda. 

Unfortunately, far too many get stuck and lost in their past or their pedigree. Far too many look at where they came from and actually go back there (in their mind), and park there, never to see the light of day in their future when their new present will look nothing like their past.

Last week, I ministered a sermon at Shekinah Worship Centre that looked at the pedigree of Jesus. Simply put, His pedigree was not perfect. As a matter of fact, the ancestral lineage of Jesus was a mixture of bad men and good men. From Adam until the second Adam (Jesus Christ), the family lineage of Jesus was spotted with imperfections. 

Let’s take a look at Genesis 5:

n Adam — He made his mistake and took the human race headlong into a place called sin.

n Seth — God’s second-chance seed. God will always give you another opportunity to get “it” right.

n Enos — Materialism weakened the state of man. They had served many gods and had to choose to serve the only true and living God once again. 

n Cainan — God has given everyone something that will cause him to succeed in his relationship with Him.

n Mahalaleel — A man of praise. He teaches that in the middle of all that you go through, you must Halal; worship God in the brightness of His glory. 

n Jared — He lowered the standard that his father had set and therefore he became a slave to failure.

n Enoch — He “bounced back” from the ways of his father and worshipped God, in spite of who he came from. In a time when mankind fell from grace, this man found grace in the sight of God.

n Methuselah — A man who knew God in spite of being surrounded by the ungodly.  He had pin-point accuracy in his love for God.

n Lamech — A man who chose to drop far below the standard of his father, committed murder, and began the practice of polygamy. 

n Noah — A man who spoke the heart and mind of God in the midst of a society who was doing all it wanted to do and all it could do, which was not pleasing to God. Noah had a son named Shem (another second son); out of whom our Lord and Saviour Jesus came.

Bermuda, just as in the family lineup of Jesus, there is good and bad before you. Though this is true, you must look at what has gone before you and choose what you shall go forward with.  

Will you keep the status quo of evil and rebellion against God or will you choose to return to God with your whole heart. 

Noah became a pre-figure of John The Baptist, as he was an earlier voice crying out in the wilderness of his world. 

Do you hear the voices crying out in Bermuda today? Do you hear the Noahs? Do you hear the John the Baptists? Are you listening? 

Are you ready to make the cover of your own 

magazine and walk out of past failures and into 

present and future 

successes? 

The potential is right here! Respice finem. n

Two of my favourite terms are “potential” and “perspective”. I firmly believe that based on your personal perspective on life you will either cause your potential to become manifest or you will allow your present circumstances to cause your potential to fester, and therefore never become manifest.

How you handle your present circumstance is a true indicator of who you are. 

Whenever I have time, I purchase either a Jet magazine or an Ebony magazine. Usually gracing the cover of such magazines is the face of someone who overcame dire circumstances and pressed his way to success in some field of life.

Basically, I believe that Bermuda is overrun with potential Jet magazine stories.

That is, there are so many who have the potential to overcome their past and become role models in the island of Bermuda. 

Unfortunately, far too many get stuck and lost in their past or their pedigree. Far too many look at where they came from and actually go back there (in their mind), and park there, never to see the light of day in their future when their new present will look nothing like their past.

Last week, I ministered a sermon at Shekinah Worship Centre that looked at the pedigree of Jesus. Simply put, His pedigree was not perfect. As a matter of fact, the ancestral lineage of Jesus was a mixture of bad men and good men. From Adam until the second Adam (Jesus Christ), the family lineage of Jesus was spotted with imperfections. 

Let’s take a look at Genesis 5:

Adam — He made his mistake and took the human race headlong into a place called sin.
Seth — God’s second-chance seed. God will always give you another opportunity to get “it” right.

Enos — Materialism weakened the state of man. They had served many gods and had to choose to serve the only true and living God once again. 

Cainan — God has given everyone something that will cause him to succeed in his relationship with Him.

Mahalaleel — A man of praise. He teaches that in the middle of all that you go through, you must Halal; worship God in the brightness of His glory. 

Jared — He lowered the standard that his father had set and therefore he became a slave to failure.

Enoch — He “bounced back” from the ways of his father and worshipped God, in spite of who he came from. In a time when mankind fell from grace, this man found grace in the sight of God.

Methuselah — A man who knew God in spite of being surrounded by the ungodly.  He had pin-point accuracy in his love for God.

Lamech — A man who chose to drop far below the standard of his father, committed murder, and began the practice of polygamy. 

Noah — A man who spoke the heart and mind of God in the midst of a society who was doing all it wanted to do and all it could do, which was not pleasing to God. Noah had a son named Shem (another second son); out of whom our Lord and Saviour Jesus came.

Bermuda, just as in the family lineup of Jesus, there is good and bad before you. Though this is true, you must look at what has gone before you and choose what you shall go forward with.  

Will you keep the status quo of evil and rebellion against God or will you choose to return to God with your whole heart. 

Noah became a pre-figure of John The Baptist, as he was an earlier voice crying out in the wilderness of his world. 

Do you hear the voices crying out in Bermuda today? Do you hear the Noahs? Do you hear the John the Baptists? Are you listening? 

Are you ready to make the cover of your own magazine and walk out of past failures and into present and future successes? 

The potential is right here! Respice finem. 

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