Due to discouragement or distraction, the gifts and talents God has imparted often get abandoned, placed on shelves to be used at some unknown date in the future, and largely ignored or forgotten. Gifts are not preserves. Use them. Don’t allow them to be remain in fancy jars, sitting pretty and unmoved, admired from afar, but waiting and waiting. Simply accumulating dust but resting without realizing the full potential of its purpose.
Dusty, stagnate, and inanimate things don’t give God glory. They cannot. Blow the dust off, breath new life into the gifts and talents that have been lying dormant on the shelf of despair, laziness, or shyness and make them alive once again. Refresh those things that have become stale. Stir up the gift within you (2 Timothy 1:6)!Â
These skills God gave and He didn’t give haphazardly. He chose each one of us specifically by His Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:4-31) has deemed them useful in the possession in the person who has made his or herself available for His service. (That includes you, believer!) Be both challenged and encouraged to use the tools that God has equipped us with to edify the Body and build His kingdom.