15 Oct 2023
What is your gift?
"Each one of us has received a special gift in proportion to what Christ has given. ... It was he who “gave gifts”;
he appointed some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, others to be pastors and teachers. He did this to prepare all God's people for the work of Christian service, in order to build up the body of Christ."
(Ephesians 4.7,11,12 GNB)
The key to discovering my "gift" is by exercising it. By doing something. Not just anything, but something "to build up the body of Christ".
I started from something that I could do and seemed useful for the body. Learning by doing and trusting the leading of the Spirit. When it did not work, then I tried another. I keep doing something.
It is in the doing that I learned and developed my gift. And I am still learning and discovering.
Do not wait to be told what your gift is. And do not expect you are good at it from the beginning. Pray and do.