Cycle of Life

Last week we talked about there being three different categories of people and I wanted to review them really quickly.  They were:

(1)   You have so developed your gifts and talents that you have an abundance, and you can freely share God’s blessing with the people around you.

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(2)   You have so developed your gifts and talents that you have more to do and accomplish than you could ever do on your own and you need people to come alongside of you to help you with the vision that God has given you.

(3)   You have not fully developed your gifts and talents.

The question is, which are you right now?  One thing that I want to emphasize is that you will never always be just one of these, as long as you are a growing and maturing Christian.  There will be, and should be, much shifting and shuffling between these categories.

I like to look at it as a constant cycle.  You go from Group 3, to developing your talents and needing help—Group 2—and then, having mastered that aspect of life, you will move on to Group 1.  However the funny thing about God is that, when you are in Group 1 in a particular aspect of life, He has a way of adding one more responsibility, or one more adventure, or one more, something.  Then you go back to Group 3, and the cycle continues.

This is one of the flows of life that keeps things fresh, exciting, and funny.  There are always new mountains to conquer, new heights to climb, and new journeys to experience.

But what do you do when you feel stuck in Group 3.  How do you get out?  How do you move forward?  How do you grow accomplish, and complete when you have never done it before?  This will be the topic of next Friday’s blog.

Well that’s all for today.  Next Monday we will be continuing the series about, “Doing what you were created to do.  There are lots of get things on tap for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and before you know it, it will be Friday again.

I did upload the firework video for yesterday’s blog, so be sure to check out the updated post.  Also, I know you all got cheated out of a Wacky Wednesday, because of Independence Day, so I am going to do a wacky post sometime this weekend to make up for that J  Have a good weekend.