RECEIVE THE GIFTS

1 Peter 4:10 NLT God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. 

When we send a gift to someone, if we don’t hear from them we contact them to check and see if the parcel arrived in the post in case they didn’t receive it.

In a similar way God has given us all gifts for us to receive and He is just as concerned that we have taken possession of them, that we have actually received, and are using them.

I had a relative who had various gifts on her wedding day but she put some on a shelf to only be used for special occasions. The sad thing was, she never ever used them. They remained brand new, never enjoyed, just looked at or forgotten! Someone had gone to great expense to buy them but they were wasted because they weren’t intended as ornaments, they were things to be used.

Romans 12:6 NLT In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well…

How about you and me? Are there gifts God has given to us and we just put them on the shelf and never actually dust them off and use them in our everyday lives? How sad that would be when Jesus went to great expense in shedding His blood so we could receive all God has given us. He says He gives us all good things to enjoy.😊

Is it worth a second look, to check and see if we’ve left anything on the shelf, not used? Perhaps God gave you a spiritual gift but you don’t use it any more? I know of some older people who had the gift of prophecy and speaking in tongues but they have put them away as though they don’t work anymore, but God doesn’t take our gifts away. They are still all inside us and God expects us to use them for the benefit of us all.🙂

But more than anything, if you have never received Jesus Himself, why not do it today and then go on and receive all His other gifts and give Him all the glory. In Jesus name. Amen.

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