Gifted

What is something that you are gifted at doing? Maybe you can cook very well and create all sorts of delicious dishes to eat, and you use your gift to cook for your family. Now maybe not everyone can cook as well as you can, but are instead gifted in other areas, but you have an ability and you should use it. 

Maybe someone is very gifted when working with electronic devices, and they are able to fix many different problems that might occur in computers or cell phones. People may have many different abilities or gifts, or they might have only a few, but whatever gift that a person has they should use. 

Likewise, our Lord God has created many, many different gifts, and He has distributed them to His believers. To someone He may have given the gift of tongues, and to another He may have given them the gift of preaching and teaching. And still to another He may have given the gift of prophecy. To each person God gives different gifts and abilities, to be used to help each other in the church to grow.

John the Baptist, for example, used his gift by baptizing others and telling others about the coming of Christ. Peter had the gift of healing, as well as preaching, and he used the gifts that he had been given and helped others. The Apostle John had the gift of prophecy, and wrote the book of Revelation, writing about the things that we need to look for so that we can know when the second coming of the Lord is near.

“Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 

And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 

And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 

For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 

To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 

To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 

But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.” 1 Corinthians 12:4-12

Whatever different gifts that have been given to others in the church, they are all a part of the same Holy Spirit. 

And just like another gift we have been given, the gift of God’s forgiveness, we don’t want to let our gifts go to waste. We don’t want them to be like an old dusty book on a shelf that never gets read. If someone is a talented musician but doesn’t play an instrument, their gift isn’t being used, but instead lies dormant. We need to use our gifts to help others, and to build them up in their faith.  

God gives His gifts to everyone who believes in His Son, Jesus. What ability have you been gifted? Are you using it?

In Christ,

Andrew