Going to the ants XVI (Wisdom from the Lizards and Spiders III)

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Spirit Breakfast 🍞☕

21/8/2020 


Proverbs 30:28 (King James Version)

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.


Continued from yesterday...


I mentioned yesterday that the web-spinning ability of the spider is an inherent skill. The silk that spiders make their webs from is stored in liquid form inside their bodies. 


When they want to make the web, they bring it out and the liquid silk becomes hard when it comes in contact which allows them to spin their webs. 


Each of us have at least one inherent skill, gift, or talent. While skills, gifts, and talents can be learned, no one is born without a particular one. 


Even the skills we learn are a product of the inherent potential we have to gain mastery of such skills. If you aren't wired or designed in that manner certain skills can be difficult to acquire. 


Although we may have these skills residing within us, it is unprofitable to us in that form. It is required that we begin to make use of it and develop it as we grow. 


Joseph had an inherent skill of dreams and interpretation. He knew what his own dream meant and he went further to interpret the dreams of the baker and the butler. 


All these were progressives stages of skill development that eventually led him to interpreting Pharaoh's dream. By the time he met with Pharaoh, Joseph had so mastered his gift that it was easy to interpret the dream. 


Same goes for David who spent years in the bush playing the harp. No one recognized the gift at its infancy. But David grew his skill, he developed the gift, and gained mastery of his harp-playing talent that the palace noticed him. 


Beloved, the higher the number of potential ability you have that aren't utilized, the higher the tendency for you to get frustrated. This is why you must utilize your gifting accordingly.


Paul told Timothy to stir up the gift that was inside of him. The same way I challenge you to stir up that gift, skill, or talent. Don't keep it dormant any more.


A man's gift makes way for Him the scripture says. However, it is not just any type of gift but a well-developed gift. 


"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God." ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar


Have a graced day...


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