Voice
Mt. 5:48 MSG—Live out your God-created identity.
When I went to get my teaching certificate, I was able to do
a single gallery show. There was a small open room with nothing in it where I
hung one large piece of artwork entitled “Voice”. It was made from several small squares lining
the wall for 10 feet across and 4 feet down.
Ken Coleman, on the Catalyst podcasts, often says that you
should operate in your sweet spot…the place where your developed skills (those
resume skills) overlap your natural gifts (the intangibles that are reinforced
by those around you. I’d like to take that one step further: look for themes in
your life, things that seem to be reinforced or people often encourage or
praise in you.
The truth is that you are unique. There is only one you.
There is a unique message in you to reveal, I believe God has something about
His personality or character that He reveals through each of us. And those
lists from above overlap—and there is a uniquely developed, uniquely message only
you can deliver. It could sound like
this is about us, but this is really about worshipping God with your life.
There was a story I heard Dan Allendar, a counselor, deliver
at a conference where he said he was in a terrible car accident and was asked
what his name was by the EMT. He said he could not remember, but what he could
remember was that he was a teacher. When we know without a doubt something that
we are meant to do, it is as though it is written on our hearts.
There is a scripture, Rev. 2:17 …I will give some of them
hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name
written on it, known only the the one who receives it.
What might be the “name” God calls you—what do you reveal
about God?
