Just this morning I was reading a devotional on the Parable of the Talents from Matthew 25. It also happens to be the lesson for Sunday’s Bible Study. As I read it, I felt deeply convicted. I know that I have not used all the “talents” God has given me. My great sin has been laziness on my part and I and I alone am to blame.
I have wanted to do blog for a long time to help encourage others in their spiritual walk and only recently have done so. My husband keeps nagging me to practice the keyboard (we have no keyboardist in our praise band) but I feel intimidated by the task. I know I’m not good at it. But at the same time I feel a peculiar resentful when other people try a hand at it. But it is exactly what Jesus warns us about: If you don’t use your talents, it will be taken away from you. If you don’t take advantage of the opportunity to use your gifts to His glory, no matter how small the task might be, God will appoint someone else to do it. And it is our undoing that the task was given away.
If God has called you for a particular task, if people keep nagging you to serve in some way, do not allow doubt, laziness, or indecision to trip you up. Simply get up and do it. If you stumble, God will surely pick you up and help you along the way. He will not abandon you, no matter how intimidating or daunting the task might seem to be; if it is a task meant to glorify Him, He will make it happen.
Today, I promise to learn the keyboard, and take full advantage of whatever other opportunities God presents to me…
Exactly so…we need to start using the gifts God has given us instead of fighting for gifts that belong to other persons.