Proverbs 17:2
‘A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son and will share inheritances as one of the family’.
This means therefore that it doesn’t matter where you start, what matters is how you wisely use what you’ve been blessed with.
No matter how dire or how bleak our circumstances may seem, we have all been blessed with something, God has bestowed each of us with a gift. Like the parable of talents, though some have been given more gifts than others, all have been given at least one gift!
It matters then, what we do with ours. What are you doing with your gift? Your gift is that for which you have grace. that which you can easily do better than others. Your gift is what you have a flair for.
Some can sing, others can write, some can bake and others are entrepreneurial. some can design and build, and others are good with children, some are leaders and visionaries, others are followers and supporters.
Will you focus on, nurture and develop your gift, or will you hide it in a corner, making excuses as you struggle through life? People who have built their lives and careers around their gifts usually report high levels of career satisfaction and personal contentment.
The Bible says a man’s gift makes way for him, and brings him before great men. (Proverbs 18:16). Your gift is your ticket out of obscurity, nurture, develop, multiply it and reap the benefits. It will take time, but what good thing doesn’t? Like the parable of the talents (Mathew 25:14-30), we can expect that the Father, who so generously endowed us all, will one day require that we give account of all that we have been blessed with.
Bishop T.D. Jakes says it so well, ‘Be excellent on your level’!
Shalom.
