Extremely Talented, Virtually Useless People

I stole this from the Blog of a friend of mine - guess people are the same the world over!!!


We’ve got this kid in our church that is an extremely talented musician. (I say kid but he’s in his early twenties which probably says a lot more about my age than his.) Anyway, he’s amazingly talented and he has a heart to do great things for the Kingdom. Unfortunately, he’s not too interested in doing anything less than great and that’s the problem.

Although he’s exceedingly talented and wants to be used by God, he’s seems to always be expressing what he won’t do. He won’t do this and he won’t do that. At the same time, he gets frustrated because he’s not being used by God. It’s almost comical.

The truth is that if this “kid” would plug in and get his hands dirty and do what is needed, there is no end to what God would do through him both here and beyond but since everything else is less than what he envisions himself doing, he’s virtually useless to our church and, I fear, to God.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Talent is vastly over-rated. I will take a less talented person with a great heart all day long over an extremely talented person with a bad attitude. Talents come and go but great hearts are hard to find.

On a side note, whenever I hear about this guy and his list of things he won’t do, I wonder what I’m telling God I won’t do.

Father, give me a heart that says “yes” to you no matter what.