God Has Given, But You Don’t Have?
What
are you thinking when you heard a terminology, “God has given, but you don’t have”! As the believers I believe
that we are called for a mission and it could be in any field of work that God
has called us to do. Actually it is not just an ordinary work but also we
should “engage in” the mission. We
should live out the mission and understand it till the deeper level that the
Bible intended to teach us. We should survive and spread out the mission as the
disciples of Christ that we can testify His proclamation in our family and
communities around us included in our workplace. Because in fact, we spend a
lot of time in our workplace.
Matthew
28 : 19 “ Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations ”. Bakery factory produces bakery, chocolate factory
produces bars of chocolate, shoes factory produces shoes, as the disciples of
Christ we should produce the disciples of Christ too. The good disciple is not
just stay and organize the program of the church, but also involved into the
action, action and action of spreading the Gospel.
“God
has given, but you don’t have.” It’s not
about what you have done, but what have you done with all you have? Do you have
the faith to receive it and become no timid? God has given everyone
“somethings” in many forms in our life such as time, treasure, money, friend,
job, ability, family, talent etc. However, it’s not our own but it’s God’s own
and we have a responsibility to develop that. Do we good enough in developing
it wisely? For example, God has given us time and healthy body. Have we use it
wisely for His glory? God also has given us ability to organize something,
mouth to praise Him and spread His words, have we use them to serve God? I
think we should realize by faith that we have been given by God “somethings”
and we have a responsible to use it.
It’s
not about productivity but the heart to use it wisely, that’s the perspective
of God as written in Matthew 25:14 about Parable of Talents. “We must having a
right view of God equals wise stewardship, what we have is not ours, what we do
with what we have reveals our view of God, our view of God determines
everything and remembered a day of Accountability will come to all of us, so we must invest what we have been given. It is
entrusted to you by God, we must take calculated risks in making wise
investments, come out of your comfort zone! apply what you know! the true
reward for working well is not more work! It is rewarding you with an increased
capacity for greater work, everyone’s given Something by God ”.
All
is from God, so that we must use all to glorify Him through our service by that
“somethings”. It’s doesn’t matter which is one talent, two talents or five
talents. All of them will be asked when the Kingdom strikes back, “ Make your
life count ”!
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