“In the biblical understanding of giftedness, gifts are never really ours for ourselves. We have nothing that was not given us. Our gifts are ultimately God’s, and we are only “stewards”–responsible for the prudent management of property that is not our own. This is why our gifts are always “our for others,” whether in the community of Christ or the broader society outside, especially the neighbor in need.
This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts. The truth is not that God is finding us a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of His choosing–and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.”
Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2993) 46.