The Ultimate Gift


I recently watched a movie called The Ultimate Gift. Now, I’ll try not to spoil it, but the basic plot is about a grandson trying to get his inheritance. His grandfather passes away and leaves him “The Ultimate Gift”, but the young man isn’t ready to receive it and the movie follows his journey of being made ready. In the end you find that the “ultimate gift” wasn’t the only gift he walked away with. The journey to the prize was full of little gifts that made him ready to receive the ultimate.

I’m not ready to receive the ultimate gift.

The young man in the movie certainly didn’t say that. Do we ever say that? Do we ever admit that?
As a young adult I’m around a lot of other young adults and I’ve had many conversations such as, “Do you know what the Lord might have for you to do in your life?”
I can tell you this, I’ve never answered: “Yes He’s given me a real passion for such-and-such but I know I’m not ready.”
To confess to the Lord you're not ready isn’t a declaration of defeat or an excuse to get out of doing something you don’t want to do. No its a beginning, a swallowing of my pride in admitting I still have some things to learn. It’s so easy to look around at everyone else and not want to say such truths. We want to put on a good front. You see people doing things similar to what you desire, people younger than you! 
But you fail to remember that they’re not you. This is a one man race. You are the only one on this track.
In the movie, the grandson was the only one in the family who was offered the ultimate gift. The grandfather saw a fire in the young man, and he knew he would succeed.
The Lord called you to live your life and you’re the only one He’s called to live it. So it’s not a contest, we don’t have to earn our slot or win the job. We’ve been chosen.

Am I ready to receive the ultimate gift? 

Lord, only you know, so I ask that you would make me ready. Make me ready to receive, not only the ultimate… but the little gift that is found in every day of the journey.

20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. 21 Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
2 Timothy 2:20-21

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