Do you ever think to yourself, "Why don't I have any talent? I can't sing, I can't dance, How can I be any good for God if I don't have any talent?" I would say, "Oh, yes you do. You just haven't found it yet." God gives us all special gifts; it's just that the world doesn't often see the gifts we have as being anything to boast about. The gifts God gives are not given to be published in the PEOPLE magazine. Most gifts God gives us are gifts that will bless others in some way. And others might not even know they are being blessed! Yet God's gifts are the best of all gifts, for they come from, not our abilities, but from God's generosity.
In Paul's second letter to the church in Corinth, he says, "That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, & in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." In other words, the weaker we are personally, the more God's power is needed in whatever work we do, and the more Christ will be glorified.
The study portion gave me good news, also. "When we are strong in abilities or resources we are tempted to do God's work on our own, and that can lead to pride. When we are weak, allowing God to fill us with his power, then we are stronger than we could ever be on our own. God does not intend for us to seek to be weak, passive or ineffective--life provides enough hindrances and setbacks without us creating them. When those obstacles come, we must depend on God. Only God's power will make us effective for him and will help us do work that has lasting value."
This makes me wonder about my choosing to write a blog. I hoped in writing a blog it would have an effect on its readers, help them to seek God in their lives. But my hope to help others cannot be controlled by me. I, first, must write knowing that my small talent has not produced a book or play or even acknowledgments. How well I write and what I write will be led by God within my mind. I write with the grace of God. If God wants to have readers, He will bring them. I will never know--nor will I fret about it. I write because that is what I do, and that's our deal, God and mine.
Of this, I am thankful! I am also thankful that at some time and somewhere that which is needed by someone out there, may be found in what I have written. These blogs will forever be there in the great "cloud" formed by letters, words and whatever else is formed by fingers tapping and minds inventing. And God will also always be there. And here. Forever--His forever.
Praise be to God!
Jo of MN
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