We often think that God limited “talent” or “skills” to people who are artistic or can build things. Genesis 1:27 says that God made us in His image. Up to that point in the Bible, all we know is that God creates good things. Being made in God’s image means that we ALL have been made to be creative. 
 
Each year, during Stewardship Emphasis Month, we take the time to determine what we can do for our church for the coming year.
 
While that is necessary and good, stewardship should extend beyond what we do for our church. God has given each of us different talents and interests for the purpose of transforming the world in good ways. There are so many “skills & talents” needed in order to make our communities and our world functional. 
 
Whether your home is your primary place of influence or it’s in business, industry, service, education or another profession, God wants you to use your skills and talents to make it a better place. He has entrusted you with the talents and resources given to you and some day you will be called to give an account on the day of judgement for what you have done with them.

 
“Money provides many opportunities to glorify God: through investing and expanding our stewardship and thus imitating God’s sovereignty and wisdom; through meeting our own needs and thus imitating God’s independence; through giving to others and thus initiating God’s mercy and love; or through giving to the church and to evangelism and thus bringing others into the kingdom.”  —Wayne Grudem

 Like a puzzle, each of us is a “Piece”, created uniquely in order to carry out His plan in our church, our community, and in our world.