1 Timothy 4:15 “Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.”

DAILY READING; Matthew 8:1-13; Exodus 39:1-40:38; Proverbs 18

William James Sidis is said to be the person who had the highest intelligence in the world. He had an IQ between 250 and 300 and was a human calculator and a linguistic genius. He was born in 1898 to Jewish-Russian parents who were very intelligent scientists. As an 18-months child, William James Sidis could already read The New York Times. At the age of eight he could speak fluent French, German, Russian, Turkish, Armenian, Latin, and his native language, English. At 9 years of age, he created a new language called “vendergood,” studied by linguists and declared to be complete, correct, and fascinating.
When he was only 9 years old, he was accepted into Harvard University. At the age of twelve, he gave his first lecture to the scientific community and the press.
After graduating cum laude and impressing academics, they took him to the University of Houston to give math classes and to start his law degree. However, in this academic and experimental world, he soon began to feel like a lab rat because he never had a normal childhood. At age 16, he began to rebel against his parents and the system. He refused to finish his law degree and stopped his education.
The press enjoyed defaming him with headlines such as “The child genius who never amounted to anything ..”, “the most intelligent man in the world has a miserable life”.
In an attempt to escape his parents and the press , William Sidis changed his name and began to live a low profile life, doing random jobs. After living a lonely and secluded life, he eventually died from stroke in a small apartment in Boston in 1944 when he was just 46 years old.

It is indeed unfortunate how William Sidis, said to be the most intelligent man, died with the great potentials, untapped, locked away within him. Who knows the amazing contributions he could have made to the world, if only he had continued to grow and fully explored his potentials.
The truth is that only a small percentage of the 7.8 billion people on our planet today, will achieve a significant portion of their true potential because only those few are willing to pay the price of growth.
As believers we all carry an enviable destiny within us. Through redemption we are destined to be the light of the world and Jesus said we shall do even greater works than He did.
However, to fully manifest this promised greatness, we must work out our salvation, through spiritual growth and development.
Though the land was promised to the children of Israel, they had to work to possess it (Deut. 11:24).
Therefore, the adventure of the believer does not just stop at redemption, our spirit man must continue to be renewed and developed day by day [2 Corinthians 4:16]
Indeed spiritual growth is a non-negotiable requirement for any believer who must fully manifest their God given potentials.
The Bible calls our potential a treasure in an earthen vessel (2 Cor. 4:7). This potential will lie dormant within us, until we assume responsibility to go through the process of growth and development. However disciplining ourselves to grow is worth the price, because the alternative is a redundant life of mediocrity.
Theodore Roosevelt once stated, “There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
Therefore to live profitable lives, let us commit ourselves to developing and maximizing our full potentials. And one way we do this is by meditating upon God’s Word.

1 Timothy 4:15 says “Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.”

Indeed through meditating on God’s Word, we will receive the divine strength and power that will propel us forward to our God-ordained place in destiny.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for granting me the grace to continually feed in Your Word, so that I can receive the strength I need to grow spiritually and fully manifest the great potentials within me in Jesus Name.
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The battle you are faced with today is a good warfare because God has already foreordained victorious end for you. WORDBITE 222.