Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Gifts

I was talking to my brother in law about a sermon on spiritual gifts, and how we are to use our gifts for the glory of God and to lift up each other. But then he took it a step further. He started to challenge me about my non-spiritual gifts. At first I was like,"yeah, let's glorify God with our earthly gifts!" But then I thought about it later on, and it made me a little uncomfortable. Glorify God with my earthly gifts? How? What are my earthly gifts? I had to think about it. What an I good at? Not much. I can fence, I can make coffee, I'm good at knowing what to wear (usually). Not sure how I can glorify God with those gifts. I tried to comfort myself with the thought that other people that have ministry related gifts were who he was talking about. But then I remembered the verse,"whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God." If I did everything like I was doing it for God, what would that look like? That means when I'm at work, at school, at home, alone (even in my own head), working out, having a drink with friends,.....
How on earth am I supposed to do that? What happened to just doing something for me? How can I live my entire life for God? What about my life? It's as if God wants every last part if me and,

Oh yeah that's the point (sigh, I'm gonna have to take some of my plans back to the drawing board)

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