We all have some type of talent (natural aptitude or skill.) The real question is how do we use it?

Date:   5/18/2021 2:23:04 PM ( 3 y ago)

Blog: Forgotten Words!
by kerminator

Time and Talent - 1

** We all have some type of talent (natural aptitude or skill.) The real question is how do we use it?

Date:9/16/2020 viewed 313 times

Paul wrote: -

" 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not to love I am only a resounding gong or clanging cymbal resounding in the wind.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have faith, that can move mountains but have not to love, I am nothing.
3 And though I give all I possess to the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not to love, I gain nothing.

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So where does this statement leave you! Most people fail to realize that they have given talents, so spend much of their time in useless restricted and foolish pursuits! Why?

When we are young and gullible, we form certain basic ways of doing things! Most of which are self-serving {selfish} pursuits actually going the wrong way. "What are you talking about? " - so their life pattern directs them down a dead-end road to nowhere!

While we all have selfish desires and concerns - you do not need to feed them! Such reckless desires are just foolishness and folly gone to seed. Thus is the overall pattern of so many in the world today!

The lust of the eye leads many to false and dangerous desires. This is actually a key part of the trouble and destruction seen in multitudes of people today! Lack of thought and consideration leads to a limited life of many dead ends.

SO DON"T GO THERE!

There was a saying when I was growing up that said; "Everything that gliders are not Gold!" This led me to think more about the stuff offered me was good or proper for my life!

** More:

What makes you kind and truly helpful? 2 of 2

** Why should you (we) help others?
Mainly because God has placed those whom you are to help upon your pathway of life!

" Have you taken time to notice and react? "

Part #2
Date:10/11/2020 viewed 273 times

How can you be helpful in your life?

Most of us tend to get but forget to give with all the things available to us.

The following is a message ta many of us need to consider!

** It’s deeply important to God that we’re mindful to bless others with what He’s entrusted to us (see Galatians 6:9-10). We must all make sure that we’re not like the stingy man in the Bible who had so much that all of his barns were full with no room for more. Instead of giving any of it away, he decided that he would tear down the barns he had and just build bigger ones to collect more stuff for himself. "GREED"
Personally, I think he was the dumbest man in the Bible.

He could have decided to use what he had to bless others, but he must’ve been a fearful, selfish man who only had room in his life for himself (see Luke 12:16–20). God called the man a fool and said, This very night they [the messengers of God] will demand your soul of you; and all the things that you have prepared, whose will they be?(Luke 12:20 AMPC).

The man was going to die that night and all he would leave behind was “stuff.” He could have added to so many lives, put smiles on thousands of faces and left a beautiful legacy, but he chose to only care about himself.

Guess what: We don’t have to do the same thing! God’s Word says that He provides for our needs and gives us seed to sow into the lives of others (see 2 Corinthians 9:6-15).

So we can decide to invest our time, our finances, our talent, and our efforts into blessing others and building His kingdom and when we do, we’ll never regret it.

Prayer Starter: Lord, my barns may not be full, but thank You that I still can give in such a way that others are blessed. Help me to be willing to give of my “stuff," my time, and myself to invest in eternity. In Jesus’ name, AMEN.



 

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