Talent is ever best developed and best appreciated where it is most needed. But this truth is overlooked by many eager aspirants for distinction. Though superficial in religious experience and mental attainments, their shortsighted ambition covets a higher sphere of action than that in which Providence has placed them. The Lord does not call them, as He did Joseph and Daniel, to withstand the temptations of worldly honor and high station. But they force themselves into positions of danger and desert the only post of duty for which they are fitted. {5T 86.2}

Talentet udvikles bedst og påskønnes bedst når der er mest brug for det. Men denne sandhed overses af mange som stræber ivrigt efter udmærkelser. Selvom de er overfladiske i religiøs erfaring i mentale færdigheder, higer deres kortere mål efter en højere handlingsfære, end den, Forsynet har givet dem. Herren kalder ikke dem, som han kaldte Josef og Daniel, til at modstå fristelser til verdslig ære og høj status. Men de placerer sig selv i farlige situationer og forlader den pligtspost de er egnede til.