In all of us is a Champion Within.
A champion aspiring gold, setting their sights to receive the prize.
We are all born a champion.
No matter our age;
the young, the old,
and middle age,
we are born a champion and retain champion status for a lifetime.
Your champion is in there.
You know what I’m talking about. That gnawing on the inside keeping you up at night, nagging and bothering you to unveil those gifts and talents you were given upon your birth announcement.
A quiet confidence that dares to tell the world from the highest mountain,
“I was born for this!”
And you were.
We are all born for greatness, born to do great things for a big God who has a great big plan for our life.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
While talents are a gift from God, God does demand a response from our talents.
Leo Buscaglia is quoted as saying:
“Your talent is God’s gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.”
Along the highways and byways of our life’s tour, God is booking opportunities and preparing stages for our performances. We must diligently study and practice over and over to show ourselves approved during rehearsal. But when that curtain rises and the audience applause begs for our appearance, we must be ready when God calls us to take our stage.
As John Wooden warns us:
“When opportunity comes, it is too late to prepare.”
As an athlete trains, we too must work the muscles of our talents, submitting our bodies to discipline and self-control, toiling in the gym for hours so the athlete emerges a Champion Within.
Day in and day out, wherever we are, we enlist our talents to the bootcamps of training.
God looks and watches for those esteemed as His faithful in secret.
God rewards and increases those talents we display and frame in our excellence.
When the day finally comes and God calls us to take our stage for His glory,
All of those hours of discipline and diligence will reward a prize
to the
Champion Within.
Our talents and gifts are given to us by God, to be used for God in the plan he has prepared for our lives.
As parents teaching their children, we are to:
Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents], Even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 AMP
A word of wisdom for ourselves and our children using their abilities and talents for God’s Kingdom Stage,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14 NIV
