Borrowed Talents

Talent on Loan from God

As with the body having many portions,
All because of having various functions;
Same with Christians in the body of Christ,
Serving the Lord in tasks that are sufficed;
For we all have special talents deep within,
Having us to use for God in our discipline;
Some may be interpreting another in tongue,
While someone else has song to be sung;
Others may be like me as writers or poets,
Still another is tasked to compose sonnets;
Farmers have the duties of growing crops,
Barbers perform their jobs at barbershops;
Preachers profess and proclaim the Gospel,
Sunday school teachers instruct the pupil;
In Christ, we all have a specific job to do,
To God, we're all crucial of the same value;
All of the talents are actually not our own,
They are really from God just merely a loan;
Endowments to us with the ability to serve,
The entire body of Christ so justly deserve.

Richard Newton Sherrer

Copyright ©2004 Richard Newton Sherrer

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