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Big Words of the Bible - Spiritual Gifts
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You were created for a purpose. You were created to join Jesus in His work in this world. It matters not that you don’t have a Bible degree of some sort. There are no first and second bench Christians. We are all called, all gifted, all designed to join Jesus in His story in our world.
Paul says this in Ephesians 2:8-10 and it should encourage you. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
The word for workmanship here means a unique piece of art. You are unique and the work He created you for in His kingdom is unique. It was prepared before you ever were because He has good works designed just for you. One of the fallacies of our thinking is that we need special training to do something for God. Not so. We just need to be available and use the gifting He has given us with those around us. If one of my gifts is the ability to write, I should write to encourage others. If yours is the practical gift of helps, you should use that to help others. He created you uniquely. Not to be absorbed in yourself but to contribute to His work.
In other passages, these are called spiritual gifts. In 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, Paul writes, “There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.”
The giving of spiritual gifts is a divine gift. It comes from the Holy Spirit and it is directly related to the purpose with which God created us. The interesting thing is that it also means that we need each other. My gifts compliment your gifts and your gifts are integral to the whole. This is why Paul calls us the body of Christ, and “each one of you is a part of it” (1 Corinthians 12:27). Further he says, “The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body - whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free - and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.”
I need you and you need me and we all need one another, and it is in the combined giftings that come from the same Spirit that we are a true body of Christ. It means that we need to show up. And it means we need to use the gifts God has given us because that is what makes the body of Christ healthy and whole. You are a part of that body. Let’s be the body together!
Father, I am amazed that you would create a work for me to do long before I was. A part that contributes to your work in our world. Thank you- and encourage me today to show up and use those gifts you gave me. Amen.
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