Romans 12:7-8 If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.
The heavenly minded identify their talents and turn them into divine treasures. No one can say that they have no talents, skills or gifts. As teaching, leading and singing are gifts, serving, encouraging and giving are also listed as gifts. Those who look at the present with eternal perspective will use what they have to invest into the everlasting future.
“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia. Talent alone is insufficient to build everlasting treasures. Without humility and discipline, ‘the talented’ will only be performers. “Talent is a gift but character is a choice” – John C Maxwell. Longevity of the talent is solely dependent on tenacity and character. We will leave back on earth our Grammy awards, Guinness book rewards, championships, affluence, influence, degrees and accolades. However, what we do with them will accrue riches in heaven.
Identify your talent, set goals and disciplines that will yield eternal rewards. The gifts given to us are not to make us famous or wealthy but to serve others. When we meet our Saviour in heaven He must say, Well done, good and faithful servant (Matthew 25:23a). Remember, the remark of Jesus will be “Good and faithful servant”, not “Great and famous servant”.
Baker and barrister, engine driver and engineer, sweeper and singer will be evaluated equally in heaven. Paul the Apostle was a very well educated and eloquent orator, articulate writer and tenacious missionary. Apostle Peter was an illiterate, impetuous but an audacious disciple. God used both of them powerfully as they turned their talents into tools to serve others.
Transformed Talents:
1. Dysfunction: Dysfunction in our family or past failure should not detain us. God uses the redeemed drug abuser to minister to addicts. God can even use the flaws and failures of a sinner to transform others. He is using the broken and bruised past of Joyce Meyer to bless and encourage millions. Don’t let your dysfunction hide your talents.
2. Disability: Disability should not derail us. Disabilities are not disadvantages but pedestals. While Missionary William Carey was striving to break the hard ground in India, his sister Polly in England was his faithful prayer partner. Polly was paralyzed for 52 years yet, she lifted up the letters from her brother and prayed faithfully from the crucible bed of paralysis.
- Disqualification: Disqualifications of the world qualifies us for the kingdom of God. The Samaritan woman was ostracized by her own people for her bad marriage decisions. Yet, Jesus sent her out as the first woman evangelist into the same village.
Use your talents to serve others and exchange them as rewards in heaven.
1 Peter 4:10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.
Prayer: Father God, I surrender the amature, unpolished and untrained gifts and talents to you. Refine them and use them to serve others. Amen.
Romans 12:7-8 If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.
The heavenly minded identify their talents and turn them into divine treasures. No one can say that they have no talents, skills or gifts. As teaching, leading and singing are gifts, serving, encouraging and giving are also listed as gifts. Those who look at the present with eternal perspective will use what they have to invest into the everlasting future.
“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia. Talent alone is insufficient to build everlasting treasures. Without humility and discipline, ‘the talented’ will only be performers. “Talent is a gift but character is a choice” – John C Maxwell. Longevity of the talent is solely dependent on tenacity and character. We will leave back on earth our Grammy awards, Guinness book rewards, championships, affluence, influence, degrees and accolades. However, what we do with them will accrue riches in heaven.
Identify your talent, set goals and disciplines that will yield eternal rewards. The gifts given to us are not to make us famous or wealthy but to serve others. When we meet our Saviour in heaven He must say, Well done, good and faithful servant (Matthew 25:23a). Remember, the remark of Jesus will be “Good and faithful servant”, not “Great and famous servant”.
Baker and barrister, engine driver and engineer, sweeper and singer will be evaluated equally in heaven. Paul the Apostle was a very well educated and eloquent orator, articulate writer and tenacious missionary. Apostle Peter was an illiterate, impetuous but an audacious disciple. God used both of them powerfully as they turned their talents into tools to serve others.
Transformed Talents:
1. Dysfunction: Dysfunction in our family or past failure should not detain us. God uses the redeemed drug abuser to minister to addicts. God can even use the flaws and failures of a sinner to transform others. He is using the broken and bruised past of Joyce Meyer to bless and encourage millions. Don’t let your dysfunction hide your talents.
2. Disability: Disability should not derail us. Disabilities are not disadvantages but pedestals. While Missionary William Carey was striving to break the hard ground in India, his sister Polly in England was his faithful prayer partner. Polly was paralyzed for 52 years yet, she lifted up the letters from her brother and prayed faithfully from the crucible bed of paralysis.
- Disqualification: Disqualifications of the world qualifies us for the kingdom of God. The Samaritan woman was ostracized by her own people for her bad marriage decisions. Yet, Jesus sent her out as the first woman evangelist into the same village.
Use your talents to serve others and exchange them as rewards in heaven.
1 Peter 4:10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.
Prayer: Father God, I surrender the amature, unpolished and untrained gifts and talents to you. Refine them and use them to serve others. Amen.
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