Monday, November 14, 2011

Skills, Talents and Gifts

I love the show Project Runway.  My daughter and I love to watch it.  Sometimes I live vicariously through the lives of the designers on the show.  It looks like it would be a lot of fun to be a fashion designer and know how to make beautiful clothes and live in a large city.  On occasion I have the thought that I could have been a fashion designer if I had not chosen to study accounting.  I can draw decently and I love fashion.  But, being a fashion designer was not what I was put on this earth to do.  I was made to be an accountant and to understand finances.

Through college and my professional work I have discovered a few things about people who work in accounting.  There are few people in this world who understand accounting; it is something that comes easy to them.  Either you understand it or you don't.  There are few people who enjoy accounting.  Either you love it or you hate it.  There are few people who stand in the middle.  The rare group of people are those who understand accounting and enjoy working in it.  I am in that group.

I truly believe that God provided me with a gifting, a talent and a skill set to be an accountant.  I believe that He shaped my path in order for me to be prepared for the work I get to do today.  The body of Christ is made up  of different people who are made to do different things.  God provides us with specific gifts and talents to do what only we were made to do.  He shapes our experiences so that we are prepared to move forward in what He has called on our lives.  We are individually entrusted with specific roles that we are individually made to do.

What is it for you?  Are you working in the area that God specifically designed for you?  Please note that my question is not, "Do you enjoy your job?" or "Are you making enough money?"  I am encouraging you to truly examine what it is that you are doing and consider if it is the one thing that God made you to do.  If it is, fantastic!  Work at it with excellence!  If not, begin the conversations with God about where He wants you.  It could make all of the difference.

What is the specific skill set that God has provided you?