Contributed by Lau Tjia-Yi • Jul 9, 2023
I was halfway to my bachelor’s degree when a creeping anxiety of the unknown future started making its way to my heart. What happens after graduation? What do I want to do with my life? What’s my niche? Is there that one thing that I’m good at? These questions nibbled at me slowly and quietly in the back of my head, and I had no answers.
That was the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic and funnily, the year that the first Ignite summit and rally took place. I was asked if I could serve as part of the committee, which I gladly took up; but as the weeks went by, my role changed and changed. On the day of the Ignite summit itself, I was doing something completely different from what I started off doing and it was something I had never done before!
As I went home that night, I reflected on the day and felt that God was speaking to me. He took my hand and walked me backwards through the past few months of event preparation to show me “Look, here’s everything you were able to do! From task to task; they weren’t what you expected yourself to do, nor were they anything you’d consider yourself amazing at; but you did it.” I remember a term that someone used to describe me that day: A Swiss Army Knife.
Through that one day of serving from 6 in the morning to almost midnight, God revealed to me two things:
1) It is truly a joy and privilege to serve wherever you are able to, even if that equals to multiple areas.
2) It is okay to not be good at one thing and it is truly a different kind of blessing to be just average at many things.
Now as I look back as a working adult constantly doubting my giftings and worth, I’m constantly reminded of what it really means to be a steward of the abilities God has given and the places God has placed me in.