God, the Creator, lovingly makes an entrepreneurial investment in each soul. He gives one or more FREE talents and tells the soul to go into the world with this UNLEARNED, predisposed ability to do something and says: be great, and bless lives; with that gift.
But here comes the foolishness; enter stage left:
That soul gets into the world, dumps that goldmine of a divinely given talent or gift in the trash of fear, doubt, and ignorant expectations. Then this fool works endlessly to raise fleeting funds in areas he or she is ill-equipped to maintain, often in a saturated supply market, to leverage resources and have to learn HUMANLY-TAUGHT skills in an attempt to be great.
...Essentially burying God’s investment and being irresponsibly ineffectual.
Is it any wonder the master calls us “wicked servants” for being unproductive stewards?!!
It is truly wickedness! And colossal foolishness altogether.
Why can’t you just use the gift(s) you’ve been given?
Why must you go learn other skills instead of using the one God gave you the advantage of having inherently known prior to being born?
Why start from zero when you could have started from one hundred?
Of course there probably aren’t many doing it already!!! That’s why YOU are here...!!
YOU were supposed to BE the market supply. The lack of predecessors was not a curse!
It was a blessing!
God was giving you an unsaturated marketplace to come in and set precedents for...smh... idiot.
And then you wonder why there is such a huge disparity between God’s prophecies over your life and your present reality... the issue is not that God is a liar (because He is perfectly incapable of it). The issue is that you have failed to use what He gave you to become what He said you could be.
- Tomi Favored (myself included) 🤦🏾♀️
Actually this matter of using your gifting versus your learned skills goes deeper...it involves pride and rebellion.
What I mean is that one tries to make something of themselves based on their own hard work and learning as opposed to God’s Grace by His gift. The Bible says a man’s GIFT will make way for him and he’ll stand before kings. It didn’t say the man’s learned and acquired skills would. Any greatness that is learned is often copycatting. And a servant will never really be greater than his master because he isn’t the pioneer of that idea.
Every time you try to make something of yourself by yourself, you’re telling God the gift He gave you is not as powerful for success as what your own foolish wisdom dictates you will try to use.
It’s pride.
It’s telling God you know more than Him.
This is why someone who’s God-given gift is to cook a particular dish in order to make it in life but who refuses to do that and wants to be a carpenter may never be as great as they could have been. Because the blessing for success is also in the obedience of following God’s directive. And while the carpenter may never learn to build furniture that a King would want in His home, the meal they would have prepared may have catered to the greatest world ruler’s appetite...
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