by Jerry Senn
All of us have weaknesses. The trick is to determine which ones are capable of improving, then get to work on those and forget about the rest. For example, some of us will never be as good at math as others. But the important thing is to stop kicking ourselves when we are not quick at math and develop the things we are good at.
Jesus’ parable about the talents (Mathew 35:14) has as its conclusion (it is inescapable) that the distribution of gifts in this world is not our concern. Our responsibility is to take the talents which we find in ourselves and exercise them to our highest possible achievement.
God did not make us to be alike. We are the product of 23 chromosomes from our mothers and 23 chromosomes from our fathers, and geneticists say that the odds of our parents having another child like us are one in 10 to the 2 billionth power. The combination of attributes that constitutes us will never be duplicated. If this is true, and if it is true that we are created by God — an original by a master artist — it makes the exploration and development of that uniqueness an item of the highest priority. (Lifted from, Alan Loy McGinnis, “Confidence, How to Succeed at Being Yourself”).
“For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you, not to think of himself more highly that he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned” (Romans 12:3).