Don’t Waste Your Gifts! Become God’s Best Version of You!
It is fun to see how children learn Bible stories and act them out in their play, like our son yelling “I am strong like Samson!” in the triumphant superman pose.
Samson’s life story is indeed colorful but, all in all, rather sad, don’t you think? He was wasting his gifts! Lord, have mercy!
Samson had everything going for him. He had godly parents and he knew he was specially chosen and gifted. But he ended up misusing his gifts and wasting his life. Lord, have mercy!
What went wrong? What could we learn from this? Samson was physically strong but he was spiritually and morally very weak. He wasted his gifts in many ways. He used his gifts to battle a lion with bear hands. But he did not deliver Israel from Philistines where his gifts would have come handy for God’s glory. Samson failed to become God’s best version of him. Lord, have mercy!
Samson was not faithful to God.
He did what pleased him.
Samson was not receptive to God’s guidance.
He did what pleased him.
Samson was dot obedient to God.
He did what pleased him.
Samson did not seek to become holy like God.
He did what pleased him.
“She did what pleased her”. That’s not how I want my life to be summed up. I don’t want to fall short of everything God has intended me to be. I don’t want to waste my gifts. I don’t want to misuse my gifts, or under-use them. Lord, have mercy!
May God show each of us how we can be faithful and pleasing to God, how we can obediently seek holiness and become all that he intended us to be, how we can use our gifts for God’s glory and according to his will.
Because becoming all God wants us to be is the best adventure we can ever have. Because if we seek what we want, we will go astray. But if we seek what God wants us to be, we become the best version of ourselves. When ‘the me I want to be’ is ‘the me God wants me to be’, my life is in balance, fruitful, and full of meaning. Who wouldn’t want that?
Dear God,
Forgive us for being selfish.
Help us to truly see that
your will is best for us.
Reveal us how we are misusing our gifts.
Show us how we are underusing our gifts.
Teach us how you want us to serve you.
Guide us to use our gifts for your glory.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen
Q4U: Have you been misusing/under-using/wasting your gifts?
Be blessed, my fellow pilgrim, as you become God’s best version of you!
Image courtesy of Paul Snyder. Linking up today with Brag on God Friday.
4 thoughts on “Don’t Waste Your Gifts! Become God’s Best Version of You!”
What a great post!! I really don’t want to misuse my gifts. Oh Lord! Please use how You built me for Your glory.
I just love how you put that with Samson, that he misused his gifts. I’ll be continually thinking about this. Thanks!
Thank you, Laura! Yes, it is certainly something to think and pray about. Abundant blessings to you, my already-brightly-shining fellow pilgrim!
reading this alone makes me to believe that i can still make it irrespective of my present predicaments…there is light at the end of the tunnel…its is well even in the well…thanks to the writer…
Oh, yes! There’s plenty of light at the end of the tunnel for you! Thank you for sharing! I pray that God will bless you dearly and guide you clearly. Because God has great plans for you! Keep on keeping on!