Potential

The preacher looks at Christ
Who hung on a cross.
In such a pathetic situation;
Helpless, forsaken.
He sees his own fabulous life.
"Jesus didn't reach His potential."
Is what he tells his audience.

I think the sermon ought to be
How sometimes we're called
For a purpose other than worldly success...
For, if potential is to overthrow the Roman Empire,
And that were Jesus' potential,
Then thank God He did not fulfill it
Otherwise every man woman and child
Would have needed to be slaughtered along with Caesar
For God's wrath was not yet appeased.
Sometimes, it is exactly the fulfilling of our potential,
The conquering of Rome, the charging into battle,
That causes us to be objects of God's wrath.
And sometimes, by living a life for God
We do the very least in terms of worldly success
But acquire the greatest riches in the Kingdom of Heaven.