Strength In Strengths

Recently as I have been reading, I have been reminded that it is far more important to focus on, and live by, our strengths. Everywhere we turn, we are inundated by the media to focus on our weaknesses; we are not the right size, the right shape, the right color, we do not drive the right car, we do not have big enough things. Often times, even friends and our church community focus on our weaknesses. We give more attention to our sin than those things that are innately ours from God - our strengths. These very strengths are the things that will often keep us from sin because they are what motivate us. To be successful, the truth lies in how we use what we have been given in strengths. Are you naturally good at talking to strangers? Do you enjoy a lot of people in your life? Are you shy but very loyal once you find common friends? Do you like to be the one up front or the one in back quietly doing your job? Are you gifted at organization? Do you prefer to be analytical and enjoy analysis? Whatever it is, God has given you those as resources to make the world a better place. If you do not do what you were made to do by using your strengths, then you are robbing the world of a great resource and taking something away from someone who should be doing what you are doing. Make sense? Many times we are only told what our weaknesses are and how we can improve ourselves to be better. Better according to who? What standard are we being placed up against and who do we need to measure up to? I am not talking about sin and our measure to be righteous according to God. I am talking about comparing ourselves to peers or others who we may want to be like. More than likely those people have different strengths and to compare yourself to them is walking off the pier of failure. You are uniquely you. Develop your strengths and use them every day to change the world. We are counting on you!