Someone once said that crude talent, attracts crude reward. Mike Murdoch noted that what enters you, determines what exits you. To make lasting impact, talent is inadequate. A life of positive impact to society, transcending generations, requires constant "chiselling". What do I mean? To be in constant demand or remain relevant, you must take concrete and deliberate steps to develop and train yourself in your area of interest.

Adequate training is putting yourself on a foundation made with rock. Daniel in the scripture had an excellent spirit and he was preferred among the wise men. He did exploits. He was outstanding. He was very wise. But beneath all these was a secret. A secret that helped him unlock the doors of relevance. He simply "understood by books" (Dan. 9:2)!

He had the God factor going for him yet he developed himself! You have told yourself that there is no need to develop yourself more, afterall the "one whey I get don do". The moment you start making such statement, you would be on your way to stagnancy.

The world is revolving daily and what you have today; making you relevant, would become useless tomorrow. Talent is cheap but when polished by training, you set yourself on a different pedestal. Elisha had to stay with Elijah before he got the unction to do double of what his master, Elijah did. Joseph was preparing himself for the leadership of Egypt when he was incharge of Portiphar's house.

Information is the currency for transformation. Anyone that has it, sets himself apart from the crowd. When you have the right knowledge, you solve problems. You become valuable and when you are valuable, you exchange your value.

People will pay you for the value you create and the problem you can solve but how can you create value when you are empty; give what you don't have? When you pay a doctor to treat you, you are paying for your ignorance in that area. The doctor might just tell you to go home, take a rest and your problem that looks like a mountain, would become plain. What just happened is a product of application of self-development and possession of adequate information in that area which you don't have. The world is in dire need of those who are informed in their area of interest.

You are where you are today; in distress, feeling unfulfilled and irrelevant because you have refused to update yourself with the required skills/ tools.

Whatever you do, go for training. Refine yourself and that raw talent you have. Getting the right skills/information/knowledge today, is the currency you need to purchase your tomorrow.

Talent is cheap and raw but the question is: are you refining it to remain relevant or do you want to continue attracting crude reward by failing to refine it?

LIFE ACT: Take concrete steps as attending relevant workshop, reading good books, taking refresher courses, in your area of interest.

MEDITATION POINT: 2 Tim 4:2; John 12:24.


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