7月27日
你的恩赐
“各人要照所得的恩赐彼此服事，作神百般恩赐的好管家。”
彼得前书 4:10
如果每一年每一个人都得到一份礼物，那这个世界就会很无聊也太拥挤了。试想一下，每个人的壁柜里都堆满了自己想要的机器人游戏玩具、填充动物泰迪熊、洋娃娃、电子游戏机等等。如果每个人都得到同样的东西，那就没什么特别了。
上帝以独特的方式给人丰富的祝福，祂赋予每个人不同的恩赐。上帝按照自己的意愿从他的资源中选取他想要赋予你的恩赐，而祂为每个人所预备的礼物都是精挑细选的。上帝给你的恩赐，有祂自己的目的。他要你运用你特殊的恩赐以你独特的方式来服事和祝福他人。
你并不拥有一切，因而你不能自夸。但是你却拥有别人所没有的恩赐。你的综合素质，包括才智、热情、经验、背景和时机的组合，都与其他人的不同。因此，上帝有很重要的使命要你去完成。
今日祷告：
亲爱的耶稣，求你指教我如何用我特殊的恩赐去服事他人。阿们。
July 27
Your Gifts
God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.
1 PETER 4:10
If every year every person got every gift, this earth would become a miserably boring and overstuffed planet. Imagine all the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, Teddy Ruxpins, Bratz Dolls, and Xbox consoles piled up in every spoiled person’s closet. If everybody got the same thing, then no one would get anything exceptional.
God blesses people abundantly with uniqueness—each person is gifted differently by God’s design. He has the resources to give whatever he wants in whatever quantity and quality he desires. But he selects each gift precisely for each person.
The gifts God has given to you are intentional. He wants you to use your specific gifts so that you can bless others in extraordinary ways. You don’t have everything, so you can’t boast in arrogance, but you do have something that no one else has. Your mix of talent, passion, experience, context, and timing is unlike the gift mix given to anyone else. And, as a result, God has some very important work he wants you to do.
Pray for the Day:
Dear Jesus, teach me to serve others through my unique gifting. Amen.
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