YOUR ABILITY IS A CLUE TO YOUR DESTINY

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13

“If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies.” 1Pe 4:11 NKJV

What do you do well? What do people ask you to do again? What task comes easily? What topics keep your attention? Your skillset is your roadmap; it leads to your destiny. God loves you too much to give you a job and not the skillset to do it well. What you do for a living should conform to your design. Few situations are more miserable than a job misfit. Yet few maladies are more common. One study states that only13 percent of all workers find their work truly meaningful. Nearly nine out of ten of them don’t want to go to work! Imagine the impact this unhappiness has on health, family, and performance. If a person spends forty or more hours a week plodding through a job he or she does not like or care about, what happens to the person? What happens to the job? Find something you like to do and do it so well that people will pay you to do it. Look for ways to align your job with your skills. This may take time. It may take several conversations with your boss. It may take trial and error but don’t give up. Not every tuba player has the skills to direct the orchestra. If you can, then do. If you can’t, then blast away on your tuba with delight. “Stir up the gift of God which is in you” (2Ti1:6 NKJV). Admire your parents. Learn from them. But don’t try to duplicate them. Discover who God has called you to be and give yourself fully to it