God has blessed you with
grace and gifts that the rest of the body needs. God hasn’t just randomly
handed you some gifts like a cafeteria hands out food on a plate. God has
carefully apportioned for you exactly the right amount of grace and gifts for
your temperament and your life situation. Nobody else has been blessed with
exactly the same grace and gifts you have. The grace and gifts you have
received from God are perfect for who you are and for where you live and work
today. God’s gifts to you overflow from the rich diversity of Christ’s
character.
God didn’t give you
grace and gifts so that you could build a monument for the world to see. God
didn’t bless you so that you could make a name for yourself. God blessed you
with grace and gifts so that you could be a blessing to other people and that
God’s name would be glorified.
Your community needs you
to exercise your grace in your unique way alongside other believers so that we
all can come to unity in our faith, and unity in our knowledge of the Son of
God. In community when we each do our work using the grace and gifts which God
has blessed us with we are helping each other to remain healthy and to grow
spiritually and emotionally.
When you don’t exercise
your gifts, you are leaving somebody somewhere at the mercy of every chance
wind of teaching. Without your life of grace somebody may be deceived by lies
so clever that they sound like truth. Satan is working overtime to trick
Christians with cunning craftiness and deceitful plotting. The gifts and grace
God has blessed you with are exactly what somebody needs today so that they
aren’t carried away by Satan’s deceitfulness or tossed to and fro by the storms
of life.
When you share the grace
God has blessed you with, when you exercise your gifts, you are helping the
body of Christ grow to its full maturity in love.
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