gifts – Mrs. Goodfinder

God made you how you are, and He wants to improve on you.

The thought came to me awhile back, “Are you afraid to be who you are?”

Each of us has gifts and talents and wonderful things on the inside that could be a great help to others if we’d just let them flow out of us.

I think sometimes we get all frustrated feeling inside because we’re not letting go to the outside what God has placed on the inside. God wants to use us and when we quench it and won’t let our gifts out, for fear of what others may think, or fear of failure or ‘what would I do if this thing actually worked?’, so when we quench the good thing God placed in us from coming out it builds up pressure on the inside and makes us miserable.

Have you ever noticed how good you feel on the inside when you do something for someone, or start working on a talent of yours and a tiny bit of progress is beginning to show? That’s the steam engine starting to move forward down the track. It’s not sitting on the rail building up steam until it feels like it’s going to explode; it’s functioning in the purpose for which it was made.

There’s nothing wrong with feeling good about doing something right, or spending time developing a skill or talent so you can be more useful to others in this world. That’s part of how we were designed.

Working together helping others in the way God enables us.

Each person is different. Each has a slightly different craft.

Each is extremely needful. Each needs other people’s help to make it happen.

We are independently dependent! Does that make sense? Yes it does!

Be the ‘you’ God made you to be, and allow others to be the ‘them’ God created them to be.

We are not imitations of one another. We are unique, individually gifted, created human beings, and although our crafts and trades might be similar to another’s, they are unique unto themselves.

God made many beautiful flowers. Why didn’t He just make one? One kind? It would be beautiful and smell pretty and that would be that. No, God makes many different kinds of beautiful flowers. The heavens declare the glory of God.

Let the beauty He placed inside of you come out to declare His glory and help somebody else.

God has a good plan for your life. He has a good plan for mine.

Reading in Galatians a while back, (I personally think every Christian should read the book of Galatians several times each year to stay balanced between doing works versus believing God), anyway I read how God sent Paul to talk to the Gentiles, (me) and Peter to talk to the Jews, so that everyone would have the opportunity to hear that God was interested in them, loved them and wanted them to turn to Him so He could lead, guide and direct them, so He could bless their lives and all that they did so the rest of the world would see there is a God in heaven.

I noticed it said in the Amplified version, (one of my favorite versions since it is so descriptive) that God ‘fit’ Paul, and He ‘fit’ Peter for the work He sent them to do.

Furthermore, it says He ‘motivated’ Paul and He ‘motivated’ Peter concerning that work.

Of course I had to stop and ponder that for a while to get the full meaning. Here’s the verse so you can look at it too:

⁸For He Who motivated and fitted Peter and worked effectively through him for the mission to the circumcised, motivated and fitted me and worked through me also for [the mission to] the Gentiles. Galatians 2 AMP

This is what I get out of it: God makes us fit, gives us the capabilities, strengths, and abilities to do certain things….so some things seem to come ‘naturally’ to us more so than other things, or to other people.

Then He motivates us: He gives us the desire to want to do something, or many somethings because He wants to have them done and we were made (fit) to do that job, i.e. It suits us perfectly. And so… many times we have an idea to do something great and good, and we think, “Well, that’s just me, that’s stupid. That could never happen.” And we shove it aside. When in reality, if it isn’t anything wrongful, it’s probably the leading of God on your life. So we just might want to take a step forward and see if God grants us success with it and if He does, then we know it was Him all along!

I’ve also heard we need to ‘give ourselves to our gifts’. In other words, after we find an area we are good at and it’s something we like to do, we need to ‘grow it’. Develop it, research about it, study about it, use it, get familiar with it– so we can develop it to the MAX, and get the full benefit out of it, so that many others can benefit from it too!

Think about it, and don’t be afraid to try!

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