Ok listen up, this is something that has been on my heart lately and I just HAVE to blog about it. Let's start with the beginning, I am NOT in the very least talented. I don't do sports, I can't sing, I can't draw to save my life, I'm a semi ok dancer, don't even get me started on writing (and this doesn't count, this is just mindless ranting), I am just naturally not good at anything. You know how there's people that are just naturally awesome at everything? Or those people that are really good with one thing in specific?? Like swimming, or singing, or whatever. Ok well I am not one of those people. I was thinking this week how useless I am, I mean compared to the great friends around me I am just dust, honestly. I kind of analyze all the things that my closest friends are good at and man they are so useful!! I can so see how God is using their abilities to take them to far places. See guys, these kids that I hang our with, they are really great and talented kids, whether its music or sports or theater they are just naturally good. So I wondered, what about me? Why am I so useless and talentless??
Then I discovered that there is one thing I'm good at and ts the only thing that I care about being good at.
Being a christian.
WHAAAAAAAT?! Mind blown!! Ok allow me to explain. Look, I am completely useless in the terms that this world defines as useless, but I am extremely useful if we use heavenly terms. Being a christian is the only thing I'm really good at and it's the only thing I care about excelling in. I will make sure that no one worships better than me, no one loves God more than me, no one reads and follows scripture more than me. Now I know this probably can't happen because I'm not perfect but the good thing is that I am useless and in my uselessness I am useful to God to show the world that his love is more important than anything else. That a life with Christ is worth more than any great thing you can imagine. And just because it can't happen doesn't mean that I won't try! I will try because my love for God tells me that I need to try. Yes I do have a talent! My talent is being a christian, it is God given and it is by grace. To this world I am useless because I don't do all the "amazing" things that other kids can do but to heaven I am useful because I can express my love for Christ by understanding and accepting that my uselessness is not bad :) I rejoice in the fact that I can't do anything right because it reminds me that I don't belong in this world, that my soul belongs in heaven and will get there someday.
Ok but what about you really talented people? Does my little rant mean that you are not useful? Not at all!! You excel in either one thing or in everything you do but there is one little thing in which you will be useless or you will fail and even then you are useful to God somehow, it is for him to decide how he will use you.
If you are non believer then I am praying for you but this applies to you too, you may feel like you are completely useless and have no talents, well guess what? YOU'RE WRONG!! Because whether or not you like it or you see it God is using you. God uses non believers to show me that I am not done, that my work here is not done, so there you go, in your uselessness you are useful :)
I am a useless human with a faithful heart and a spiritually talented christian.
Don't ever think that being useless is a bad thing, if you ever feel useless remember that even king David felt useless at one point. You do have a talent, it takes a while to find it but you have one. Search for it, don't sit there and wait for it to magically show up, search your heart!! My dear, you have no idea what you are capable of.
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