Last Thursday, I had an interesting interaction with Mr. Birungi. We’d talked earlier on Monday about meeting to discuss his two unwritten books.
When I embarked on my writing journey, I thought it was all about getting my novels out! God had other midwifing plans for me, alien to me.
The parable of talents teaches us good stewardship and multiplication. To everyone that increased their talents, more was given to them. This applies to you too!
Even if the talents in the parable represented a currency, they’d stand for your gifts as well.
God made it clear to me, that my writing would earn me good money, but so would teaching others or helping others to write. I am not talking about ghost writing here, but walking the journey from start to finish with another person, helping them every step of the way.
Joseph was a dreamer! And even if it seemed to benefit him alone in the beginning, he began encountering other dreamers! Unlike them, he had something else: interpreting dreams. Now interpreting his was a good thing, but in his helping others’ dreams, did he get established forever in life!
After interpreting the cupbearer’s dream, the Pharaoh dreamt! And he was summoned! As a reward for interpreting, he got promoted, received the second highest rank in the country, and got a wife as well!
If Joseph somehow limited his interpretation to himself, perhaps he would have never left the prison!
Who knows? (Okay, God knows but —) what if in my helping someone else write their book would my incredulous turn–of –events and life come!
This is not necessarily imparting a talent or gift, but availing it through your presence to make another life better.
David himself was a skilled player. His strumming was so anointed that it could keep an evil spirit away from tormenting King Saul. But in all this, we must remember to sharpen those skills. Joseph did not go to Pharaoh after having one dream. Nor did David hold a lyre for the first time, then get called to the palace the following day!
No! Each of these bettered their gifts, until they were fit enough not only to be presented to royalty but to be direly needed by the same!
Remember the servants from the parable of talents were added to only when they multiplied what they had been given. Multiplying your gift in our era could range from practicing, adding a degree to it, mastering in it, or expanding its place of employment.
May God grant you the spirit of excellence and the character of diligence in all you do, so that you not only stand before mere men, but transcend — to standing only before kings! (Prov 22:29)
Hallelujah!
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