I'm writing this for my own benefit. I'm sorry about that, I just figured I needed to think about talents again, because being here at college, I've realized just how talented everyone else is. There are so many amazing singer, pianists, writers, missionaries, everything. It's amazing, and I can't help but stand back and watch as these amazing people show what they can do, while I sit in the background, envious of the talent. How did they get so blessed with such amazing gifts? I shouldn't be so jealous, but I am. I wish I had talents like their's...
But my Heavenly Father wouldn't send me here without talents. But He also would not send me here with my talents already developed, where's room for progression there? If it didn't take work, it would be pointless. It's like the parable in Matthew. I know that in that parable a talent is technically a quantity of money, but just stay with me for a second. Every single servant was trusted with a certain amount. So what if they weren't equally distributed, they each had been trusted with something important from their Lord, just as we have. So one of them brought ten back, another brought five back. They were both rewarded because they put forth the effort to show their Lord how important their talents were to them. However, the one who did no work with what his Lord trusted him with, he was punished. Its not because he brought a low quantity of talents back. That didn't matter, it was the fact that he did absolutely nothing with his gift, but bury it. Who does that with a talent trusted to them from God? I certainly hope I don't, but I guess thinking about it, I do.
I've been told all my life that if I would just practice piano, I would actually have a shot at being semi-decent. Apparently I don't have a terrible voice either, but I dunno, I just try to avoid sharing that as well. My writing...I mean I have a blog, but I don't share it much, even though that's a way of magnifying my talents as well. I dunno. I just don't want to be that third servant who buried such an amazing gift, without having gratitude for it. That's the worst thing I feel I could do.
This song here reminds me of talents...just because you don't have the talent you want, doesn't mean you aren't talented. And honestly the talents you get, are the things that you are truly sent here to magnify. Think what this world would be like if we didn't have Handel who magnified the talents his Lord gave him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY_XEJeXbDo&playnext=1&list=PLEBFCCCB375288913&index=25
Enjoy this song.
If this was a post on Facebook, I'd so be liking this. :)
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