How To Use Our Gifts!
"As each one has received a
gift, minister it to one another."
1 Peter 4: 10
Earlier this
year, an Ohio woman bought a painting for
$2.99 at a thrift store and sold it for nearly $3,000 when
she discovered it was the work of a gifted artist. Most of
God’s children are like that.
We underestimate our value and the value of
the
spiritual gifts God has given us. Maybe we worry
too much about finding our gifts and spend too
little time exercising them.
As we serve the Lord, our gifts will emerge.
But anxiety over finding our own distinctive
set of spiritual gifts may keep us from
today’s tasks.
The apostle Peter simply said, “Be hospitable to one another
without grumbling. As each one has received a gift, minister
it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace
of God."
"If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God.
If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which
God supplies” (1 Peter 4:9-11). That’s something you
can do today!
"The New Testament’s teaching on spiritual gifts focuses
not on self-discovery but on loving service. In fact, the
anxiety about
discovering “my” spiritual gift will probably
fade completely when you focus on what you can do to
build up the body of Christ."
Jonathan Threlfall
