Amadeus: When Others Are More Gifted (1 Corinthians 12:14-18)
Salieri loves God and music. He has worked, sacrificed, disciplined himself. Then Mozart arrives—vulgar, immature, seemingly unworthy—but impossibly gifted. Salieri's faith collapses: Why would God give such gifts to such a creature, while giving me only the ability to recognize them? Paul writes: The body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body, it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. Salieri's tragedy is not lack of talent but inability to accept his particular gift. He could recognize genius—a rare gift—but wanted instead to possess it. Comparison is the death of calling.
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