Talents and Other Blessings

In the end, all of our talents, all of our “good traits”, all of our accomplishments that we think we have mastered ultimately belong to Him. If we plant our flag and claim these to be “ours”, then we have truly lost them. They are but on loan to us from the great Master. Some are blessed with intelligence and quick wit, some with artistic ability, others with a gift of ministry. Whatever it is that we truly do well (or have better than others) - it cannot be claimed as our own. Only when we give Him the glory for these gifts do they remotely begin to belong to us. I suspect that when we finally come before the Lord, the things that we think were such unique talents or gifts of ours were merely the result of circumstances, timing, good fortune or other factors. Try and market them as your own and you become the Great Plagiarist, of which I have recently found myself guilty. Whatever gifts we may have, we must assume they are from Him. We are only a vessel He hath chosen to display them in. It is at this point, more than any other, that our talents come the closest to belonging to us.