Maximising your ability

Scottish athlete and Olympic champion Eric Liddell is not just remembered for his pace on track but also for this statement, "God made me fast, and when I run I feel his pleasure."

Every person has an inherent gift that when discovered and fanned will benefit society and give God pleasure. But when an individual's inner firepower is not discovered and utilised positively, it becomes a time bomb that will eventually explode and wreck havoc. That explains the madness in the world today, the latest being the violence against foreigners in South Africa. 

Using our talents like these dancers will afford no time for negative pursuits

It emanates from the failure of the world to train the little ones while they are still bendable so that when they are grownups they will not misuse the latent power within. This why the education of the child is so important. Not the formal training at school but the informal learning through interaction with elders.

Things like intergrity, respect and responsibility are not taught but caught. If a father comes home drunk everyday and clobbers his wife, how is his son expected to respect and value others?

In Better Than Good, motivational writer Zig Ziglar passionately discusses the importance of speaking words of affirmation to children to help them have self-belief and grow up with a positive mindset. Some girls bleach their skins because nobody told them they are beautiful just the way God created them. Because they had no strong positive influence to make them beli

eve they are unique, they fell for the lie that they are ugly and have never accepted themselves.

If we become the change we desire in this world, the children to whom the future belongs will do the same. No one who is helped to know and maximise his talent will have time for negative pursuits because they will be busy making manifest the glory of God through their talents just like Eric Liddell pleasured God with his running.