All of us have more potential and capacity than we realize, but how do we find and unleash the gifts God has given to us?
Life coach and national Christian leader Todd Wilson helps us discover who we are created to be, what we are made to do, and where we should go.
There is a big difference between having life, and taking hold of life more abundantly.
“You can walk down the aisle and say your ‘I do’s,’ sign a marriage certificate and have a marriage, but that is a completely different thing than taking hold of a healthy marriage.”
“The difference between just having something versus taking hold. We have a responsibility in marriage to take hold of a good marriage; there’s not going to be a good marriage without taking hold of it.”
We are encouraged to ask ourselves important questions so that God can take us to higher heights and deeper depths. Todd points us towards the BE-DO-GO framework:
Who am I created to be?
What am I made to do?
Where am I going to do it?
As parents, we need to pay special attention to the framework that we are instilling into our children’s lives.
“When we raise our kids, we’re conditioned on the doing question, ‘What are you going to do?’
“We see that some of our kids are good at sports and others are good at science, and we tend to push them into the things that we see they’re good at. We send them off to college and say, ‘We’re going to spend a lot of money on your college, get this right, what are you going to do?’”
Todd explains the importance of helping our children understand who did God created them to be, first and foremost, before sending them off to go and do something.
“They focus on getting good at doing something, then as they get ready to get out of college what’s the big question? ‘Where am I going to do what am I going to do?’ They shift to the go question.”
He elaborates on this issue,
“I don’t think it’s by mistake that 10 years into it, 20 years into it, people are restlessly discontented, wondering, ‘Isn’t there something more? Is this what I’m going to do with the rest of my life?’
“What they’ve done is they’ve skipped the be question, they’ve skipped the, ‘Who am I created to be?’”
