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Every child comes into this world goal oriented. Take a look at a baby in a crib who begins to cry and is given a pacifier. He may suck on that pacifier for a little while, but the next thing you know, he is playing with it, and before long, he has pulled the pacifier out of his mouth and it has rolled just beyond his reach. The baby might squirm a little or raise his arm in hopes of reaching that pacifier, but when his efforts fail, what does that baby do? He begins screaming and crying again! He is goal oriented even in the crib, even for a pacifier. That child will do everything in his power to get his needs satisfied.
Every normal, healthy baby comes into this world with a desire to achieve and succeed in life, to do and have the things that will bring a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment and contentment. He has a desire to communicate and express himself, a desire to relate to others, and a desire to relate for mobility; to scoot, to crawl, to walk.
God has given you an inbred desire for success so that you will act. He has given you the desire so that you will motivate yourself to discover your gifts and talents and use them. You have a built-in drive to get your needs met in a way that brings pleasure. Some people seem to have been inbred with the idea that they should always be taken care of or that handouts from others are the way to live. To live with a reliance upon others is not God’s design. Rather, it is a choice that people make, consciously or unconsciously.
Some people choose defeat, choose to fail, choose to be lazy, choose not to care, and choose to blame others continually for their own lack of success. To a certain degree, these people have made a choice to live by manipulating others, guilt-tripping others, or using others for their purposes.
They don’t have any less desire to live a good life they have chosen ungodly means for attaining that good life. "Manipulating others, imposing guilt on others, and using others for selfish purposes are not in line with God’s plan. They are methods of the enemy, not methods that God calls righteous."
The drive that God builds into you is neutral. It can be directed into lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Or it can be directed into a pursuit of the things of God and the success that God has planned for you. But the drive toward success, satisfaction, and fulfillment is present in you, it is a gift of God to you that He expects you to use in right ways.
God Has Equipped You for Success. In addition to the promises of God’s Word and the desire for success
God has built into you, God has equipped you with one or more natural talents and abilities as well as one or more spiritual gifts "which are also called motivational or ministry gifts". These gifts have been embedded in
your unique personality for one reason, so that you might use these gifts to the best of your ability and produce quality work that has a potential for both earthly and eternal reward.
Let’s take a closer look at the process involved in the use of your gifts.
The first step is the discovery of your unique gifts. If you do not know what God has gifted you to do, study your life and abilities. You may benefit from taking certain aptitude or spiritual gifts tests. Discover what God has built into you.
The second step is the development of your gifts. Gifts do not emerge
full-blown and at peak perfection. Your talents, abilities, and spiritual gifts must be developed through practice, application, and exercise. You become
better at your talents, whether they involve playing the piano or functioning in the spiritual gift of exhortation, the more you employ your gifts.
The third step is yielding your gifts to the Holy Spirit. At the time you trust in Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, God gives you the presence of His Holy Spirit in your life. One of the functions of the Holy Spirit in you is to empower what you do in the name of Jesus and to cause what you do in the Lord’s name and for His glory to produce eternal fruit.
