TAKING SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

'You cannot put something on nothing, it will fall, and it will certainly fall’.

The year was 2005, and I was in a cartography class. Our first assignment in that class was to write the above words with a Cartographic pen and template. That was a task. But long after the task, these words remained with me. In that statement, is a wealth of truth.

Today’s world -more than any time ever- demands that you use what you have. It demands that you search within and call upon the unique core brand that God has given you. We all have something we can give. We all have been equipped by God; He hasn’t sent anyone into this world empty. Emptiness is a lack of sight and understanding, not the depiction of a void.

I have heard many complain about their lack of talents and gifts. Why would they have been created empty? Why would the Creator leave them as empty vessels? The parable was told of the King who gave different gifting, and talents unto three of His subjects. He didn’t give them equally, nor did he give them the same thing. In truth, he gave them according to their abilities and capacities- but none could complain he had nothing. They all had something. They were all given enough to make impact. Yet one of them hid all he had. He hid it. He was barren. He lived a void life. (Matt 25:14-30, Luke 19:12-26).

Now He that is full of wisdom made a worthy statement, ‘For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him’ Luke 19:26 (Emphasis mine). How can you take from nothing? Wait a minute, I thought he had nothing! How can you take from he who is barren? Let’s explain this in monetary terms. We all have a way of understanding monetary terms. A man has a balance of $0.0 in his account, but someone withdraws $500,000.00 from that very account. Now, either there is a problem with the bank, or there is some information hidden to the man. He may just lack knowledge of what he has.

The Creator has got no problem. The problem is with the uninformed and misinformed man. It is time to give room and a lot of time for self discovery. You are made for bigger things. You are wired for impact. Quit living on Rejected Avenue, quit racing with roaches, for its time to join the elite class of men who are living in the fullness of who they are. You may not have what someone else has, but you have something! You are uniquely woven to impact your world. You are specially branded by God with your special gifts to be you.

Paul and Peter of old summed it up in two separate letters, ‘For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.’ (1 Corinthians 7:7), and ‘As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.’ (1 Peter 4:10).

You were not put here for nothing and on nothing; God gave you something with which to build your life and the lives of others. It is yours; so discover it…and use it!

Fisayo Adeniyi

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