Wait, you mean that’s not who I am? Now what?

I think I’m onto something. For those who follow God I would call this a revelation. For those who don’t label it as you wish. We all have natural virtues; some of you will call them gifts. For instance, I’m a communicator and love to connect with people. My entire life I have been told, and bought into the idea, that that is who I am. But now I’m starting to wonder.

Oswald Chambers keeps speaking to me from the grave, via his book “My Utmost for His Highest.”

“The sign that God is at work in us is that He corrupts confidence in the natural virtues, because they are not promises of what we are going to be, but remnants of what God created man to be.”

I wonder that we as humans don’t cling to our natural virtues as we desperately try to “Find ourselves.” We use those virtues and gifts like a treasure map when in fact, God is trying to lead us, not to who we are, or whom we grew up being, but He’s trying to make us into a new creation.

I’m finding I discover that Rick when I relax and “Be.” It’s as if I’m cleaning the slate of all that I know and handing the paintbrush back to the artist to show me what He had in mind rather than what the world came up with.

Does this mean we don’t have natural virtues and gifts that do great things? No. Does it mean, in my case, being a good communicator is a bad thing? No. What I’m saying is it’s time we stop using our natural virtues as a gauge to determine our fate.

Oswald goes on to say; “It is the saddest thing to see people in the service of God depending on that which the grace of God never gave them, depending on what they have by the accident of heredity.”