Do you have any talents? Music, art, authorship? Sewing, cooking, style? Maybe you speak multiple languages, or you’re really good with kids. Perhaps you’ve got the mathematics touch, techie hands, or you’re the prayer warrior everyone wishes they had in their life.
Take a moment to think about it. Do you feel like you don’t have any talents? Surely, you have something. There is something special about each of us. It’s okay to doubt ourselves, and in fact, Scripture says in our weakness He is strong. When Yah told Moses he was going to deliver a message of rebuke to Pharaoh, Moses himself said, “Me? But I’m dumb, I stutter!”
And yet, look at what he went on to accomplish in Yahuah!
Sometimes we are too focused on our faults, mistakes or shortcomings, that we can’t see the opportunity to be used by God.
When you look in the mirror, are you seeing good things at all?
Or are you your biggest critic? Who are we to deny His glory, even if that glory is just being able to acknowledge the way He has made us, awesomely and wonderfully?
A friend told me one day, “Pride can also take the shape of false humility. Who are we to say we can’t do something or we aren’t good enough when Yahuah told us that we can and we are!?”
There’s a name for this. I don’t know what it is, but it is a subset of pride, rebellion and bondage. But we are free.
When Zechariah the father of John the Baptist received a prophetic Word from the Holy Spirit about Yeshuah, he said the following:
“We have been rescued from our enemies
so we can serve God without fear,
in holiness and righteousness
for as long as we live.Luke 1: 74-75 NLT
So I ask you, what’s so holy and righteous and fearless about how you serve Yahuah with your MIND, body and soul?
I’m encouraging you to acknowledge His Goodness in you today, re-dedicate your gifts and talents to Him, and don’t be like that poor-minded servant who buried his only talent, and it was taken from him!
The crowd was listening to everything Yashua said. And because he was nearing Jerusalem, he told them a story to correct the impression that the Kingdom of God would begin right away. He said, “A nobleman was called away to a distant empire to be crowned king and then return. Before he left, he called together ten of his servants and divided among them ten pounds of silver, saying, ‘Invest this for me while I am gone.’ But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’
“After he was crowned king, he returned and called in the servants to whom he had given the money. He wanted to find out what their profits were. The first servant reported, ‘Master, I invested your money and made ten times the original amount!’
“‘Well done!’ the king exclaimed. ‘You are a good servant. You have been faithful with the little I entrusted to you, so you will be governor of ten cities as your reward.’
“The next servant reported, ‘Master, I invested your money and made five times the original amount.’
“‘Well done!’ the king said. ‘You will be governor over five cities.’
“But the third servant brought back only the original amount of money and said, ‘Master, I hid your money and kept it safe. I was afraid because you are a hard man to deal with, taking what isn’t yours and harvesting crops you didn’t plant.’
“‘You wicked servant!’ the king roared. ‘Your own words condemn you. If you knew that I’m a hard man who takes what isn’t mine and harvests crops I didn’t plant, why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.’
“Then, turning to the others standing nearby, the king ordered, ‘Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one who has ten pounds.’
“‘But, master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten pounds!’
“‘Yes,’ the king replied, ‘and to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. 27 And as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king—bring them in and execute them right here in front of me.’”
