Just because I am 15 doesn't mean I'm naive?

Question

God seems to have touched my heart, and gave me knowledge. I have increadible music talents (but can't type on a keyboard). Do you know YOUR spiritial gifts?

Answer 1

I don't have any 'spiritual gifts'. Every skill I have (3 instruments, several science degrees, cooking, singing, art, etc) is something I worked for. I'm not giving anyone or anything else credit for my hard work.

Answer 2

but you are also not Wise. you may be great with music, and you may have some divine information from your god. and noone can refute that.

but at 15 years old you think that you are ready for anything that the world can throw at you and you think that you know everything. i was the same. when i was 15 i thought that i knew it all and noone could tell me differant. by 18 I actaully had some life changing mistakes to look back on. a few car crashes, a few dead friends, having to find a place to live on my own because my parents loved me enough to kick me out.

then by 21 i thought i knew it all again. at 23 i was an alocholic that has lost a child in a car accident. you would think that having a kid killed by a drunk driver would scare you away from alochol, not turn you into an alocholic. by 25 i finally came to terms with the suicides of a few friends and the death of the child, got off the booze and became gainfully employed for the first time in my life.

and today at 29 i would say that i know everything that i can possibly know about being 29 years old. but someone that is 40 has 11 years of experience and knowlege accumulated over anything that i could possibly know. I am still Naive at age 29.
and it is my opinion that anyone that has to tell the world that they are not niave, most certainly is.

Answer 3

No, being 15 doesn't necessarily mean you're naive. But of course, this doesn't mean you have nothing to learn or you've reached the peak of your maturity.

Also, talents and knowledge and maturity are all different things. While you should be proud of your musical talent, it doesn't make you wiser or more mature. Those things come with time and experiences. I don't want to minimize your life thus far, but unless you plan on living until 25, you have much more to experience.

I don't know what my spiritual gifts are. Perhaps empathy? Integrity? I don't know if those are gifts, but not everyone seems to have them.

Answer 4

No, just being 15 does not make you naive. May the Almighty God touch your heart with all the good things.
I do not know about spiritual gifts but many things that happened to me in my life were good and I am thankful to the Almighty for that and hope to stay that way. So recently I realized that since most of the things that happened to me were good and seemed happened to me despite my personal weaknesses, so I am thinking that those other things that I was less satisfied with were probably good as well but I may not appreciate them as I may not know the proper value. And the same way, those things that I longed for but did not get them, might have been harmful for me and probably Almighty Allah substituted something good in its place but I may not be aware of it.
Allah knows better.

Answer 5

Honey, I think it's great that you're following after God, and do hope you go far with a ministry.
But to be 15...even the most mature teens I ever knew grew up to be even MORE mature adults. You are still naive. I know you don't want to hear that.
I'm not saying you're immature. I'm not saying you don't hear God's voice. But in another five years, you'll look back, and you'll know what I mean.
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Answer 6

being Naive has nothing to do with your talents or spiritual talents. It means kinda like not being aware of the worlds evils and what people can do to you, its when you still trust people before you realize there all jerks and noone is a true friend give it some time, I wouldnt rush it though be glad your naive you still get up thinking your gonna find something worth getting up for, enjoy it while it lasts

Answer 7

maturity is not all about our age.... but yes... most people think that old people knows everything even they don't.... maturity is very subjective,,, but i love to link it with the knowledge.... more you know the mature you are... but we still have to consider what type of the knowledge that we have..... i think you can be a naive person if you only can tell others about your incredible music talents... i know my spiritial gifts instead.... but i still can't claim myself as a mature person... and i'm 19 already..

Answer 8

My two best friends told me the greatest thing the other day about that. I have been having a hard time with some things and was feeling very low about myself. They both called me at different times and told me that they really admire my gift of being able to just love people. Even when other people would have given up on someone, they told me that I have a great ability to just keep on loving. The really neat thing about it was that neither one of them had talked to the other before telling me.
It was just the thing I needed to hear and obviously God knew that!
(one of them also told me that I look like Faith Hill and that helped too :)
Have a blessed night!!

Answer 9

Yeah, I do.
I'm Catholic, but for some weird reason, for my entire life, I have felt like I have to power to use magic, which is "against" my religion. I've seen and done things never thought of by man kind. I love God, and I want to be close to him, but I wonder if what I a feeling/doing is too wrong? I feel like he's going to let me do this. I just have to wait and see. I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm 17 by the way.

Answer 10

Okay at 15 you may not be compeletly naive. But you are still certainly inexperanced in all the facts of living.
The gift of finding.

Answer 11

Mine has always been the gift of knowing others intentions. I can feel an aura about people and it's either positive or negative. 95 times out of a hundred they are positive. The others I stay away from.

'-)