Th Thief...

Billions of dollars in advertising are spent trying to convince you to use up your talents and money on yourself here and now instead of investing long term in others for others. Were told life is lived in the moment. Today is really all that matters, so don’t think about the consequences of your decisions or how they’ll affect you tomorrow when you wake up.

I think of wasted talent like Eminem and TuPac. I grew up listening to their music. The lyrics are morally dead, but they had great talents that sold out to the fashionable culture.

What if they never sold out. What if you never sell out, But instead use your talent for God passions, using the abilities God has gifted you uniquely with. You have tremendous potential. Don’t let what comes out of mainstream culture dictate what you do with your life. You might not even have much, but you don’t need everything the world is trying to sell you. Paul says in Ephesians 4 vs 28 doing something useful with your own hands. You gotta work with what you got.

Its nothing new, go back thousands of years to Moses. One man who led a nation out of slavery. Judging by his cultures standard he thought there’s no way i can lead a nation. He said God Im nobody, they won’t believe me, I got a speech empetimint, i can’t even talk right. He’s giving excuses and telling God how much he can’t. THEN

God tells Moses in Exodus 4:2 “Whats that in your hand”? He says “a staff.” Throw it on the ground. IT became a snake. God said Use it to let them know I sent you. Use what you got in your hand.

What do you have in your hand? What has God given you to work with? WHAT ARE your talents, dreams, God Passions. Are you giving God excuses, or running to the immoral culture because you think you have to have what they got in order to have purpose and live life? Have you bought into the mainstream culture of living life so you can relax and waist away life as the ultimate goal? It took guts for Moses to step up to the plate and out of his comfort zone. But because he did, God used Him to deliver a nation. Jesus said "The thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy, But I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."