MAKE THE BEST USE OF WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU

God gives each of us different gifts and opportunities in life, we have to make the best use of them to the glory of God. If not, they will be taken away from us. 

In the bible, we are told that Adam lived a total of 930 years. Today, a human being does not live that long. We should make the best use of the time God has given us on earth. Be it 10 years, 100 years or 130 years, we should make the best use of it to give glory to God. One day, we shall die, and God will judge us for how we lived our lives with the time He has given us on earth. 

In the bible, 1 Samuel Chapter 15 vs 3, God commanded Saul to destroy all the Amalekites. But Saul decided to spare the choicest animals, valuable items and King Agag. This made God angry, and He rejected Him as King of Israel. Also, God chose a teenager to replace him as king. 

In the bible, Matthew Chapter 25 vs. 14 - 30, a man was travelling, and he gave his 3 servants different bags of silver, depending on their abilities. To the first, he gave five bags, the second had two bags and the last had one bag. The ones with five bags and two bags respectively, doubled their bags. But the one with one bag buried it. When their master returned, he was happy with the two servants who doubled their bags and he gave them more responsibilities, but he was displeased with the last one that buried his bag. He ordered that servant to be thrown in the outer darkness.

In Matthew Chapter 25 vs 29, it is written that everyone who has will be given even more in abundance, but those who have not, even the little they have will be taken away from them. 

We should make sure that we are not idle, but we should make use of our talents, gifts and different opportunities that God has placed in our paths to use and serve the Lord because, we do not know tomorrow.                                                                                                  

THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT

Nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happens to everyone (Ecclesiastes 9 vs 11). In life, ironical things happen every day and this baffles us. 

Sometimes, it is not the person who has first class degree that gets the job, nor the most beautiful woman that wins the pageant. It just happens that people are lucky at different times.

The most beautiful woman in the pageant might have the least confidence and the one who ends up winning might have no parents. Whatever opportunity you get in life, make the best use of it because a lot of people more qualified than you desired that position but you were chosen instead. A man who worked hard in school may have a great degree and still be jobless for a long time while a man who never attended school will play a lottery and win millions of dollars.

There are times when shocking things happened in the bible like that of David and Goliath. David was not the most skilled warrior nor among King Saul's army, but he ended up defeating Goliath with a sling and a stone. There were men there who had trained for years in King Saul's army but couldn't face Goliath. 

There may be an urgency for a job in a place and all the qualified ones are busy making excuses but an average skilled man who is willing to offer help will do that job and even be made the manager in charge of all others who are actually more skilled than him. A rich man who disguised himself and wants to marry may eventually marry a maid because the queens felt too proud for him. 

God can place you in a position you actually didn't qualify for, and He can make you qualified just to prove to the world that He uses people that other people don't expect, to do great things. In a race, the fastest runner who everyone thought would end up winning could fall a few meters to the finish line while the one at the last takes the lead and wins the race. Expect the unexpected. Time and chance happen to everyone on earth. Bad luck also happens to everyone. Make the best use of every opportunity you have in this life.