Talent, Nothing Wasted, Ten Thousand Kicks

Your purpose is something that God created with you in mind, in your life specifically, that only you can accomplish with the gifts and talents He has blessed you with.

All our talents come from God Himself. If you’re an incredible singer, thank God for giving you the talent to use your voice to make others smile and feel something.

That doesn’t mean we aren’t putting in our own work to hone our skills, only that there are things we were born to do in this world.

There are people—who are well-known—that you can look at and say, “They were made for doing this.”

LeBron was made to play basketball. That is what God had planned for him in the womb.

Mozart was made to compose music all those years ago. Mozart was always meant to be known as Mozart.

Hideo Kojima was always intended to write Metal Gear and Death Stranding (what a mind).

These people are fulfilling their purpose, whether they are aware of God’s hand on their lives or not.

Whether you like him or hate him, Donald Trump’s formative years in real estate and making deals prepared him for his current role as POTUS.

That is an interesting thing to ponder, too. Sometimes we have a purpose that prepares us for an even greater purpose.

That stint of years writing college essays might have been to get the hands moving and the brain thinking enough to get used to writing so that you could blossom as an investigative journalist in five to ten years.

When you walk with God, nothing in your life is ever wasted. That heartbreak you had was simply the springboard to understanding love in glimmer or in shadow—or even to show you that person was never meant to be yours because your heavenly match would come along in thirteen years.

When David was a shepherd, he had learned to tend sheep as a gift from God. This allowed him to further understand how to tend the flock of Israel proper as the man who would be king.

When Joseph was a slave and in prison, his time there using his talents prepared him for the greater power in his late thirties to early forties.

Nothing is ever wasted. Your talents, your experiences—they are yours alone.

Every facet of your life, from the grand to the mundane, is all meant for you to prosper in the gifts God has given to you.

Finding your purpose is as easy as seeing what you are equipped with, or where your love is placed.

If you love playing guitar and have a handle on it to such a degree that it comes naturally to you, then take that as a sign that it’s possibly what you’re made to do.

But then again, you might have multiple talents. These multiple talents can be combined with other talents to make something the world has never seen or used as separate skills to hone and glorify God with.

Some of us are gifted in many things.

Maybe content creation makes you feel fulfilled. But you might also be an amazing baker.

The point is, use what God has given to you. Where your passions, gifts, and joy cross each other, that’s the target.

Your soul correction in this life is to fill this world with that ever-illuminating light within you (to borrow Kabbalah concepts).

Your talent is never wasted, so find out what it is, or, if you know what it is, hone it to the best of your ability.

Bruce Lee didn’t fear a man who knew ten thousand kicks. He feared the man who had practiced one kick ten thousand times.

Shalom.

“If you can only do one thing, hone it to perfection. Hone it to the utmost limit.”
Jigoro Kuwajima — from Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer