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Be yourself!
'We have different gifts ...' Romans 12:6
Have you ever had your French teacher trying to teach you biology? Had the postman cut your hair? Seen an opera singer chase down a robber and arrest them? Watched a dinner lady doing open heart surgery? I'm guessing probably not. Why? Because those people are all skilled in certain areas, and not others. If we all went about trying to do everything, the world might be a bit of a mess. Imagine if only postmen cut hair; we'd all be wearing hats to cover the mess. Or French teachers taught biology; we'd all think the human skeleton looked like the Eiffel Tower!
People being arrested wouldn't have a clue what their rights were if they were sung to them in Italian, and you really don't want chocolate pudding with raspberry sauce putting in place of your heart, do you? But get them all doing what they're great at and we'd be entertained, get our mail on time, speak great French and have amazing meals put in front of us.
The Bible says 'We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.' It's time for you to hunt out your gift and develop it. Don't spend your life trying to be something you weren't meant to be. God made you who you are and when you try to be somebody else the best you can ever be is number two. So be yourself - after all, there's no one more qualified to be you than you.
written by Bob Gass
'We have different gifts ...' Romans 12:6
Have you ever had your French teacher trying to teach you biology? Had the postman cut your hair? Seen an opera singer chase down a robber and arrest them? Watched a dinner lady doing open heart surgery? I'm guessing probably not. Why? Because those people are all skilled in certain areas, and not others. If we all went about trying to do everything, the world might be a bit of a mess. Imagine if only postmen cut hair; we'd all be wearing hats to cover the mess. Or French teachers taught biology; we'd all think the human skeleton looked like the Eiffel Tower!
People being arrested wouldn't have a clue what their rights were if they were sung to them in Italian, and you really don't want chocolate pudding with raspberry sauce putting in place of your heart, do you? But get them all doing what they're great at and we'd be entertained, get our mail on time, speak great French and have amazing meals put in front of us.
The Bible says 'We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.' It's time for you to hunt out your gift and develop it. Don't spend your life trying to be something you weren't meant to be. God made you who you are and when you try to be somebody else the best you can ever be is number two. So be yourself - after all, there's no one more qualified to be you than you.
written by Bob Gass
