Most people desire to climb to the height of greatness in life, but few know how to go about it. Here is the truth: Nothing can facilitate your journey to success and recognition like your gift. The starting point is to look inward and see what has been uniquely given to you. What can you do that other people cannot? Or what can you do with relative ease better than others? These could be pointers to the gift of God in your life. Work on your specialty until it becomes a skill. Someone will be willing to pay for it someday.
“Work on your specialty until it becomes a skill. Someone will be willing to pay for it someday…Those who discover, develop, and deploy their gifts are on the way to the top.”
Our text is drawing attention to a little creature called the spider. It is one of four little creatures that the book of Proverbs describes as wise, the other three being the ants, conies, and locusts. The spider is considered wise because it puts its hands to work, resulting in its making a mark in the noblest of palaces. Even though hard work is stressed by this reference, we can consider it from another angle. To appreciate the point we are about to make consider this: imagine that the spider is working hard at singing. How much progress or impact do you suppose such effort will yield? Nothing, you would say. The reason is that the spider was neither created nor gifted to make melodies. All it can do is weave, and that is what takes it to the palaces. So it is the spider’s gift that is on display. Those who discover, develop, and deploy their gifts are on the way to the top.