THE GIFTED HANDS
He was just a boy who
once grew in the slums of Detroit. He was popularly called “the class dummy”
because he would hardly get an answer right when asked by the teacher. He would
quickly raise his hands up hoping to get it right but all the time he was
always wrong.
The boy who was once
called ‘class dummy’ a popular synonym here in Nigeria as ‘Olodo’ who was
almost maimed and treated because of his dark skin, beaten and bullied, never
knew that one day, he would be called a great surgeon’. According to him he
said “I realized that I had a wonderful hand, eye, and brain co-ordination
which motivated me to excel in neurosurgery”. He discovered that his hands are
gifted and today he is a celebrated neuron-surgeon who broke a record as the
first man on in the world to separate a Siamese
Your hands are gifted,
my hands are also gifted. God fashioned every person with a unique gift that marked
them out from the other. This post brings to mind the story of Moses in the
book of Genesis. God had asked him to go to Egypt to lead the people of Israel
to the promise Land. But Moses was headstrong giving God his shopping list of
excuses. Moses said “No Lord, don’t send
me. I have never been a good speaker, and I have not become one since you began
to speak to me. I am a poor speaker, slow and hesitant”
Wow! Did you see Moses’
excuse list? I am not a good speaker, I am poor, hesitant and the list goes on.
But God was angry with Moses Exodus 4:14. God then ask Moses a revealing
question “So the Lord asked him, what you are holding? Ex 4:2. Moses looked at
his hands, he was holding a stick and he screamed “Just a stick!” and he was
wondering was God would do with a stick, he was wondering if a stick which he
used to lead livestock would also be used to lead the whole people of Israel.
And God shocked him by
saying “throw it down. When Moses threw it down, it turned into a snake, and he
ran away from”. Moses must have been a very timid guy, and I wonder how big
that snake could be that made a livestock nomad to run away from just a snake.
God made him realized that in his hands lie a great treasure chest, a great
weapon, and a great evidence to lead the people of Israel to the promise land.
But among the discussions Moses hand with God this was the most shocking and revealing.
God told Moses “Take this stick with
you, for with it you will perform (great) miracles” Ex 4:17
What
is in your own hands? What gifts have God given to you? How have you been using
that gift, talents, and potentials? Only if when you discover and use your gift
will God bring blessings and favour to your life. Solomon, a great philosoper
and politician said “the gift of a man makes room for him and brings him before
great men”. What a phenomenal statement! I charge you today to start developing
that gift, potential in you. That desire that keeps burning in you is a pointer
to you gift. That problem you have always want to solve in the market place is
a pointer to your potential. Why not start today?
Cyprian Henry
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