Copyright 2010 Theresa Harvard Johnson
I have always had a problem with the interpretation of this scripture by some believers I’ve met over the years:
Proverbs 18:16 NKJV, “A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.”
As an Apostle in the Worship Arts, I meet people daily who worship their gifts and sabotage their own purpose and destiny. In context with how this scripture is often used and taught, men are pressed into places of worshiping their “gifts” instead of focusing on the one who released the gifts to them. It brings forth a wrong spirit, one of entitlement. One in which people believe that they are entitled to something simply because they “have or they work” a gift well.
Father said this to me this morning: “I am not shallow that I would base the merit of my Word on the operation of a gift alone. All gifts, beloved, are only attributes of the whole man.” People of God, take a moment this morning to ask yourself this question: “What does Proverbs 18:16 mean to you?”