What talents do you have? Can you speak multiple languages? Do you have the ability to learn things quickly? Is grasping new ideas and concept easy for you? Can you foresee what will happen based on circumstances and historical information? Do you love others?
Some of us have many talents. Others have only one or two. For those with many talents, life may seem to come easy. For those with few, life may seem to be a struggle. For those who learn quickly, they may receive promotions sooner than others.
Yet, it does not matter how many talents we have nor how powerful those talents are, if we do not love others. Sure, those talents may help us be successful in this life. They may make our lives easier. They may help us get promoted before others. Having many talents can make us versatile and able to take on many different professions.
But it is love that makes our lives valuable. It is love that brings us joy. It is love that allows us to bring joy to others. It is love that makes us more like Jesus. It is love that will drive us to sacrifice for others. It is love that is the impetus for serving others. It is our demonstrating the love of Christ to others that makes God happy.
I pray we all recognize our talents. I pray we use our talents to carry God’s work on this earth. I pray each one of us will show the love of Christ to others and use our talents to serve them. Know your talents. Use your talents. Do everything with love. Show the love of Christ to others.
1 Corinthians 13:1-2 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
Marty Pressey 