Talent

Brett Banasiewicz is a 15 year old BMX phenom from my home town of South Bend Indiana. This kid is awesome, they call him Mad Dog! He is the youngest person to win a competition on the Dew Tour and this weekend he will be competing in the finals at X-Games 16 in Los Angeles.



It's obvious that God has blessed this young man with an incredible talent. But what I find interesting is that he has found that talent and developed it at a very young age. For some of us the gifts are found early like with Brett. For others it takes years to find our God given talents, and for a few they may never be found at all. God has equipped each of us with various abilities that are unique to who He has made us to be. But in order to use them we must seek them out, search for them, find them and develop them into something great.

In our society we spend way too much time trying to fix our shortcomings, our inadequacies, our insufficiencies. If there is an area where we are weak we are taught to concentrate all of our efforts into transforming that weakness into a strength. But what happens is that we get frustrated and give up. What we should be doing is concentrating all that effort into developing our talents.

What would happen today if we sought out our God given talents? What would happen today if we found them, developed them and used them the way God had intended? What would happen today if we stopped trying to fix our weaknesses and exercised our strengths? What would happen today if we asked God to join us together as His men to use our unique gifts collectively to advance His Kingdom?

What would happen today...?

For more information on this subject I recommend the book "Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham. (only buy this book new, there is an access code inside to a web based evaluation assessment that will help you find your strengths, it can only be used once)