Use it well

God's gift is always enough for any individual to accomplish something.

If we compare it with what others have, we will find that there are two kinds of people-those who have never done anything with their gifts and those who have fully utilized theirs.

You and I must say, "I may not accomplish as much as they have, but I'm going to give it all I've got!" We're never going to get anywhere unless we use the gifts God has given us.

Rom 11:27 For this is My covenant with them, when I have taken away their sins." 28 Indeed as regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. But as regards the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. 29 For the free gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Paul compares the possessors of spiritual gifts to members of the human body because as the members of our body are none of our doing or deserving, neither are the spiritual gifts we possess. They are God's gifts entrusted to us for a purpose.

If that purpose isn't fulfilled, His gifts are wasted. What's the use of having an eye or a hand that doesn't serve the entire body? A test of the genuineness of any gift is whether it benefits the body of Christ as a whole, or only the possessor. Does it tend to unite the body or to divide it? Does it make members who are different from us feel estranged or fellow members with us of one and the same body?

Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith. 4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function, 5 so we the many are one body in Christ, and each one members of one another. 6 Then having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith; 7 or ministry, in the ministry; or he who teaches, in the teaching; 8 or he who exhorts, in the encouragement; or he who shares, in simplicity; or he who takes the lead, in diligence; or he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness. 9 Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good; 10 in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.

The Lord has given to each one of us at least one gift, and probably many more than that. The most important thing in life is to find what gifts we have; secondly, to recognize that they are from God; thirdly, to be faithful and dependable in using them. Anything that is not used doesn't develop.