The Gifted Ones

By on 30 November, 2009 | Comments (1)

last-minute-gifts-1223Unless we are genuinely talented, or have a very high esteem of ourselves, we tend to think of others as being the gifted ones. We often long to have the same abilities, looks, talents, opportunities, education or wealth of others.

Yet every believer is supremely gifted of God. More in fact than we could ever imagine.

When we are placed into the Body of Christ (the church) at salvation (1 Cor 12:13), we are supernaturally equipped to fulfil our own particular function and place in the church.

Noted theologian Lewis Sperry Chafer defined the spiritual gifts as  the ‘Holy Spirit doing a particular service through the believer and using the believer to do it’.

Spiritual gifts are not same as fruit of the Spirit as described in Galatians 5:22-23.

The fruit of the Spirit relates to the development of our character while the gifts of the Spirit relate to our calling and service. While we want to serve the Lord in the power of the Spirit, it is important to understand they are different aspects of the Holy Spirit’s work in our lives.

It is also significant to note that the apostolic sign gifts such as healing, speaking in tongues, and miracles are not mentioned in the list of spiritual gifts in Romans 12. That is consistent with the NT teaching that such miraculous gifts ceased at the end of the time of the Apostles (2 Cor 12:12; Heb 2:3-4) by the close of the First Century AD.

Suffice it is for us to pray this morning: Lord help me to use the gifts and abilities you have given me to glorify you, encourage believers and evangelise the lost.

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Thanks for sharing that! That was really encouraging! =D

Comment by RoSeZ on 30 November, 2009 @ 3:36 pm

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