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God Is Not Fair and Why That’s Good News

[This next one might hurt a little]

* It means no matter how hard you work, you may never have the same influence/opportunities and platform as your buddy who does the exact same thing you do.

This is an uncomfortable truth, but the good news is God does not judge us based on what someone else is doing.

No.

He judges us based on how faithful we are with what he has given us. Kingdom work is not a race to beat others. It’s a race to be faithful with what YOU have.

So yeah, God is not fair because he gave your buddy 4 more talents than you, but it’s okay because though unfair, he is just and kind.

And that, my friends, is great news for ALL.

* Practically, it means some of us need to stop beating ourselves up because we don’t measure up with someone else in our ‘field.’

* Maybe the reason he or she has greater influence is not because you’re less faithful but because you simply have been entrusted with less?

* Maybe you’re just not as good a leader/business man/student/singer as they are, and you never will be?

* For others, it means stop pretending that you have 2 talents when you have like 5 because guess what, Jesus is gonna ask you what you did with 5 and not 2.

I constantly migrate between both camps.

There are days when I pout that I’ll never be as dynamic a speaker as Louie Giglio. Then there are days when in a stupid attempt to appear humble, I bury my talents like the dude in the parable.

The best days though are when I’m honest about my part in God’s story and my focus is on being faithful with what he gave me.

Those are the best days because I’m too busy delighting in the truth that I get to play such an awesome small role in his story that I don’t have room in my heart to wonder why he gave me less or more talents than someone else.

What about you? Will you be honest about your part in God’s story? What was stirring in you as you read this? Do you disagree with anything I said? Let’s talk…

What camp do you lean in? Talent burier or comparison junkie?

Also, how have you seen not talking about this issue of capacity [God giving us different degrees of giftedness] affect our effectiveness as individuals and the church? Why is it so uncomfortable?