When Michael Jordan first tried out for his School's varsity basketball team, he didn't make it.
Michael was a freshman. He was still only five feet, ten inches tall. There was only one open spot on the varsity.
Another freshman who was eight inches taller won it.
At that point Michael Jordan wasn't super-coordinated and super-athletic. But there was a gene locked up in his DNA that was about to be released, a gene that would make him eight inches taller and give him an incredible ability to jump and soar through the air.
Michael Jordan could have gotten discouraged as a freshman. He could have thought: Basketball is just not for me. But something deep down on the inside kept telling him, "This is for you. You have what it takes. This is what you were born to do." His destiny was calling out to him. It was in his DNA.
Even though he went through that rejection and additional setbacks, he realized that other people didn't determine his destiny. Other people didn't know what God put in him. He kept believing. He kept being his best, kept pressing forward, and one day that gene activated.
He became one of the greatest basketball players of our time.
All of us have gifts just waiting to be activated.
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