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What's your talent?
"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being." - Paul Tillich
Have you ever thought about how when you don't take a risk at all you're still wrong? I'll never forget one time when I was in middle school band and I was singled out in front of the whole class. I played baritone in concert band. Don't laugh! Mr. Ellis pointed straight at me and said, "You! You're playing the wrong note!" Well, I wasn't quite brave enough to tell him in front of the whole class that I wasn't even playing at the time he stopped the band! So, I just shook my head and continued pretending like I was following along. The truth is I wasn't playing because I was totally lost and didn't want to look like an idiot. I got to thinking about that incident the other day though, I really was playing the wrong note the whole time. Not playing at all was the worst error I could have made.
There's a story in the Bible that Jesus tells about a man who goes off on a trip and gives his servants each talents (or money) before he leaves to invest and use while he is away. When he returns two of the servants had doubled the amount that they had been left with, while the third servant had done absolutely nothing with the talents he'd been given.
In Matthew 25:24-27 (The Message) the story goes on to say, "The servant given one thousand said, 'Master, I know you have high standards and hate careless ways, that you demand the best and make no allowances for error. I was afraid I might disappoint you, so I found a good hiding place and secured your money. Here it is, safe and sound down to the last cent.' The master was furious. 'That's a terrible way to live! It's criminal to live cautiously like that! If you knew I was after the best, why did you do less than the least? The least you could have done would have been to invest the sum with the bankers, where at least I would have gotten a little interest."
The bottom line is that God wants us to use what we've been given. Each of us have been given a unique gift, a talent. We should be putting these to use and lay aside our fears of error. The greatest error that we can make is to not pursue the very life God has created us for.
Have a blessed day,
Jon Miller
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