How did Jesus fulfill his potential? He gives the disciples this truth in John 12, 24-25,
I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains
alone, but its death will produce many new kernels, a plentiful harvest of new lives.
When Jesus came to this earth, everything he did was what the Father wanted him to do.
Everything he said was what the Father wanted him to say. He laid down his own desires,
his own opinions, his own reputation, his own rights. He laid it all down and was willing
to actually die physically in order to fulfill his potential so that we would be saved.