A business man was a bit concerned about the future of his two children and how they would take care of the company that he worked so hard to build.
Then he took his two sons for a holiday on a farm where he had spent his childhood. After a long trip and the first night, he called his children to help him fix the barn in that farm.
He gave each one of them a toolbox. One of them was full of all kinds of tools and updated, the other one just had an old hammer, an old screwdriver and old pliers.
The work took a couple of days and each day the father changed the toolboxes. One day, one of the sons had the full one and on the other day the other son got it, until the end of the job.
When they ended the work, and they were rejoicing on the good job that they had done, the father called them and asked them when they felt more useful and why?
Their answer was: “When you gave us the toolbox that was full because everything that was needed was there, we were more active in movement. On the other hand, since the tools in the other box were
bad, we only could watch the work be done by the other - not by us.”
“The same is in our life.” – replied the father - “We are like a toolbox, we can be useful or not, it depends on us. The more things we know, learn and update or upgrade on, the more useful we will be
but if we don’t invest in ourselves, don’t learn or upgrade ourselves
with new ideas or things, we will watch others succeeding and doing
what we were supposed to do.”
Dear reader, maybe you say that you want to succeed in life, and want to be used by God. Let me tell you something, this depends on you, if you invest in yourself (toolbox) study, search to do better in
everything that you do, learn new things (ie. a new language,
courses). God will use you more and you will succeed, for sure.
“In a wealthy home some utensils are made of gold and silver, and some are made of wood and clay. The expensive utensils are used for special occasions, and the cheap
ones are for everyday use. If you keep yourself pure, you will be a
special utensil for honourable use. Your life will be clean, and you
will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.” (2 Timothy 2:20-21 -NLT)
Be always the best, in Jesus name.
if we "improve" ourselves, we will be more useful for our Lord and give a better testimony too...
ReplyDeleteWow! This is a great post that has come at the right moment when making plans for the new year. It has taught me so much and gave me motivation in that, when i avail myself to be taught and be useful, for sure it wont be a waste because God will use me to add for His glory. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteQuite what should be my resolution.To avail myself to learn more so that I can be used by God even more.It is truly a wake up call to me.
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU.
I definitely want to be used by God to give glory to him.For this reason I will keep myself pure and make sure I invest in my spiritual life so that I can be useful in the kingdom of God.God bless.
ReplyDeleteThis message helped me a lot, because the more we put ourselves at the disposal to learn, we'll definitely be more used by God in his work and will glorify him through our lives.
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