Read: Ecclesiastes
3:1-14
He hath
made every thing beautiful in
his time:
Ecclesiastes 3:11
I got to thinking the other day about just
how many best-selling books, amazing songs, or artistic masterpieces are out there
that have never been read, heard, or seen by the public because someone is too
scared that the work they have produced just isn’t good enough. They are afraid
either that someone will laugh at them or that their work will be a failure.
Maybe they are afraid that they don’t have enough money to see their work
through to completion. They keep it hidden in a box under their bed or locked
in a storage cabinet away from the eyes of the populations that could enjoy their
talents. They hide what God has given them in an attempt to avoid embarrassment
or failure.
Many Christians do that with their lives.
They have amazing talents and abilities; yet, because they are afraid of what
people will think of them if they share them, they never let them be seen.
There are many people who have good voices, but because they are afraid someone
may laugh at them, they never join the choir or even sing out in church. Some
have outstanding abilities in organization or in serving, but they don’t want
the extra workload, so they keep it hidden. Some could be working on a bus
route with the children because that is where they could best be used, but they
don’t do it because they feel insecure in their own abilities. Whatever the
reason, the cause of Christ is hindered because they are not doing the job that
they could be doing.
Teenagers are especially well-prepared to
accomplish menial jobs around the church because they have the endurance that
most older folks do not; yet it seems that when the church has a work day, very
few teens show up to help. Teens are great at working on bus routes because
they can relate to the children, and they have the energy to help deal with
them; yet very few teens allow God to use their talents in the bus ministry
because they are afraid of what some will think about them.
God wants to sculpt a masterpiece with
your life, and He has equipped you with the talents to make it happen. Get out
of “the box under the bed.” Stop being afraid of what people think of you. Most
people are too wrapped up in their own insecurities to worry about making fun
of you anyway. Let God use your talents to accomplish what He has placed you on
this earth to do.
Quote of
the day: “It is better to have little ability and use it well than to have much
ability and make poor use of it.”
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