Your Gift Brings You Gifts
DR. SEGUN ‘TREMENDOUS’ OSHINAGA
Your gift is your principal tool for making contributions to your world. You neglect your gift and you have neglected your destiny. If you improve your gift, your destiny is improved also. The quality of your gift will determine the quality of your service to the world.
“A man’s gift makes room for him, And brings him before great men.”
Proverbs 18:16 NKJV
Your gift holds the key to your gifts in life. Your promotion, possessions and progress are all locked up in your gift. As your gift touches and blesses other lives, they will enrich you with gifts. Each man/woman is a rich deposit of blessings. The blessing that you become is proportionate to the development of your gift.
The responsibility for adding value to our gifts lies entirely in our hands. What God has deposited in each of us are raw gifts. Just the same way He deposits unrefined gold in the cavities of the earth. Doesn’t it amaze you that the earth has always carried a large pool of gas and oil? These were of no value to any one until man discovered the technology to extract and use it.
Oil was discovered in Nigeria in Oloibiri in the Niger Delta in 1958. But that was not the year that God hid oil in our land. Our forefathers lived and died in penury, not because the land was not rich in minerals but because they had no means to extract and use it.
“One well cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.”
William Matthews
There is an ‘acre of diamonds’ in every man but without the tools and skills to extract it, he might as well die a pauper. God will neither dig it nor refine it for us. It is our responsibility to make the most of what God has given to us.
Myles Munroe rocked my world when I read his book on ‘Potential’. In that book, he said one of the most profound things ever said – “The richest places on earth are not the diamond mines in Jo’burg, Saudi Arabia or Russia but cemeteries. For there are buried gifts never used, riches never known and wisdom never spoken.” I have improvised because I can’t remember his exact words again but that is the thrust of his quote. That just blew me away. I remember meeting him in Tokyo, Japan in 1998 and spending a few days together in the same hotel as guests of our mutual friend, Rev. Sylvester White. I could not but thank him profusely and repeatedly for his profound revelation.
“One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.”
Nathaniel Emmons
Many just don’t explore and dig out enough of the profound treasures imbedded in themselves. I say it often enough – your MIND is your MINE. It’s like each person has his own private oil deposit or as we commonly call it in Nigeria – oil block. Each man/woman is a Mobil or Chevron, Texaco.
It is therefore, a shame for anyone to die in penury. It is inexcusable, totally unnecessary. Let me close with these words:
Find your gift
Train your gift
Use your gift
The more you use your gift, the more it becomes, the better it is and the greater your impact in the world.
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