Gifts

If I didn't know what drumsticks were for, what would I use them for instead?

So often, I find that I have the tools God wants me to use in my life, but I just don't know how to use them properly.

Finding a place to use those gifts, when to use them and how to do it are questions that I can't answer for you. I guess what I've come to realize is that you can't limit God when it comes to this stuff.

Nothing is insignificant. Krystle at Asian Extension last week talked about how we each have 'arsenal' weapons that God has given each of us individually to battle with.

We can all identify with that!

Do you love writing cards or notes to people? Do you love drawing? Do you love just sitting and talking with people? Can you tell when your friends are in grumpy moods and you know how to make them feel better? You play music? How about playing sports?

What are the things that you do well, that you know are a gift and that you could totally use as your weapon in this incredible spiritual war?


Sometimes we know our weapons but we don't know how to pull the trigger.
If I didn't know how to write with a pen, my writing skills wouldn't matter.
If I didn't know how to hold a drumstick, it wouldn't matter if I knew any beats, would it?

If I spoke of men and angels and didn't love, it wouldn't matter.



If you don't know how to use what you've been given, sometimes the first thing you need to do is find the purpose.

What is a drumstick for? Am I using it to beat the dust off of rugs or am I using them on a drum kit?


Are you using your gifts for the purposes that you've been given them?

Smooth talker, are you encouraging others or are you gossiping and pulling others down?



Let's get to the root of our gifts, everyone. Find what they are and then attach a purpose greater than yourself to it.


That's what Jesus did.