Spiritual Gifts

Good morning y’all. I’ve had an enjoyable weekend so far. Saturday morning, at my church (Austin Street Baptist Church) we had a LIFT (Ladies In Fellowship Together) meeting. It was awesome. We had a guest speaker and we talked about spiritual gifts. It says in the bible that the greatest gift from God is love. Now I’m not a bible scholar but I do believe that it is. The ability to love and to be loved is so great. The feeling that it gives you inside is inexplainable. I know that when I look at the people that I love, the feeling that I have gives me such great joy. I am getting a closer relationship with God but at times it has been such a struggle.

One of the hardest things for me has been “love thy neighbor”. I’ve been hurt over the years, just like most of you, but I have a hard time letting those feelings go. I know that I am supposed to let go of those feelings but sometimes I don’t know how. Jesus went through so much torture and died for me and yet he forgave me even though I don’t deserve to be forgiven. I think that part of my struggle has been ‘how can God forgive me when I can’t forgive myself’.

One of the other things is that I wonder what my spiritual gift is. And if I don’t know what it is, how can I use it to glorify God? I wish that God would just write it down and say, “This is your spiritual gift, and this is what I want you to do.” But I guess that he has done this by giving us the bible. But the catch here is that I must read it and let God tell me through His word what I am supposed to do. As like most things, I want the quick and easy way, ‘just tell me’. So these are the thoughts running through my head this morning.

After the meeting, we went with a couple of people from church and took the kiddos bowling. They had such a great time. Thank you, Christina Cherry and Lisa Harris, for the wonder time. I hope that we can do it again sometime soon.

I’m going to say that I hope that all you have a wonderful day. I challenge you to learn something from the bible that you don’t learn in Sunday School or a Church service. That is what I am challenging myself with.