I am living proof you can start bad and end good through a relationship with Jesus Christ. - Christine Caine

If you commit yourself to living according to His Word your potential will be unlocked, and in time, what may look small now will grow into something significant.

until our faith is tested through challenges, obstacles, trials, and storms, it cannot be stretched to new lengths, deepened to new depths, nor grown to new heights. Faith must be tried to its limits before it can grow beyond those limits.

I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.