13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
The longer I live in this world, the more I am filled with the peace that only my living Savior Jesus provides. In this world, there are many symbols of faith from people who desire to know God who simply has lost their way in life. Instead of being on the one road leading to hope, peace, and the love of God, they get lost on a never ending road filled with pot holes, danger signs, and hair rising cliffs with the occasional cascading cliffs as they drive by.
The political climate with its many varying opinions is enough to make one sick. Instead of turning to the one true source for what gives us hope, we fall into a system of beliefs that living in a bigger house makes me happy, living in the right zip code, having status, titles, is the secret to happiness. I've live long enough to know that none of that is satisfying. None of what the world tells us is the secret to happiness is true. If one were to fall for that false belief system, it will lead you to more disappointment, more headaches, more debt, and a misery that would be unimaginable to comprehend.
It makes me sad to see hurting people. I guess the spiritual gift of mercy will do that to me. I was born to encourage people, to help them thrive, to give them hope that everything will be Ok. But this gift isn't something that I got from textbooks, from rising on the ladder of success, nor earned from many promotions and public recognition. No,it was a gift that was freely given to me by my Creator God, my King of kings, my savior Jesus.
Instead of engaging public discussion on the current fad, of who will lead our country of who holds the current snake oil of success, I desire to ask this one question: what is your spiritual gift and are you striving to use it every day for God's glory?
2 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b]11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
I have also learned that our political system cannot save us, but Jesus Christ who has the ability to change the hearts of men and woman can save us. Which is why former Muslim's are coming to the realization that Jesus Christ is the answer. Which is why many former new agers are finding Jesus. Which is why people once filled with the trappings of success, too much debt and a mountain of health problems are finding a new life with this Savior king, Jesus.
We were created by God to bring hope to this hopeless world and the greatest thing we can do is to learn more about your spiritual gift and use it to help change people's hearts toward Jesus.
In the final analysis, it isn't your bank account,nor your titles and all of the other trappings of success that will save you, but it is knowing Jesus and making him known to a world filled with forgotten people.
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