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In the Kingdom of God there are no spectators, each
one of us has a unique role to fill, we each have a specific assignment to
carry out, a destiny to fulfill and we have both been graced and gifted us for
excellence in our God given roles. As we continue in fellowship with Him, as we
continue obeying Him and submitting to His Word, the Holy Spirit equips us and
releases us to fulfill the specific assignments He’s called us to.
God’s grace that is through the finished work of
Christ is freely bestowed on us in different forms. It is God’s unearned,
unmerited favor, freely given to us as we put our trust in Jesus and what He
did to save us and reconcile us to the Father. We are saved by God’s grace, we
live by His grace, we grow in His grace, we are taught by God’s grace, His
grace enables us to serve Him and we His grace is our source of strength.
We are not to let this awesome grace of God in and
on our lives be in vain. It was the grace of God that enabled the Apostle Paul
to accomplish a lot more than his contemporaries. After receiving the
revelation of God’s unmerited favor, he didn't sit idly by, but through it, he went
on to do great exploits for the Lord and for the Gospel.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not
been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them—though it was
not I, but the grace of God that is with me. – 1 Corinthians 15:10 NRSV
In Romans 12, the Apostle Paul, by the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, reminds us that as individual members of the
body of Christ, we each have been graced and gifted for different functions.
The Apostle Peter, urges us to faithfully steward the grace that God has
bestowed on us. When we
selflessly use the gifts that God has entrusted to us to serve, bless and
benefit others, we are being faithful stewards of God’s grace.
10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have
received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. – 1 Peter 4:10 NIV
When we use what God has deposited in us to benefit
those around us, we are essentially allowing the Holy Spirit to flow from
within us to impact others with His love and power. Serving others in love
requires humility on the part of the server; the more we desire to serve others
with what God has given us, the more we will walk in humility and His grace
will keep on abounding in and through us for the Word of God says, He gives
more grace to the humble (James 4:6)
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You are not a spectator in the Kingdom but a
participator; serve others with the gifts that God, by His grace, has placed
within you, don’t hold back, don’t let feelings of inadequacy cause you to
disqualify yourself from serving God. He is the one who has qualified you by
the Blood of Jesus. He is the one who has called and equipped you for His
service. He is in you and He is with you all the way!
Fear not! Be bold! Be a faithful steward of the
manifold grace of God today.
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