4/14/14 1 Peter 4:10 Employ Your Gifts In Serving the Lord

1 Peter 4:10 (NAS)

 As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

 

              1 Peter 4:10 (NIVUS)

 Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.

 
Through His favor and grace, Adonai the Lord God has fashioned a special gift for you that you have gladly received. It is a gift by which faith, knowledge, virtue, and holiness are displayed.  You have received extraordinary power to serve the church of Christ in God’s kindness and benevolence. Your life is a picture of His forgiveness, pardon, restoration and preservation. You show others how God's power working in and through you provides those things necessary to sustain their spiritual and natural lives. 
 
You are a commendable and admirable manager in Adonai's house, for you are faithful to carry out the commands of your Lord, the Master of your life. You are completely in harmony with God's will.  Because of your honor and excellence, you have been made an overseer of His flocks.  Through you others see His nature and various facets of His grace, which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm and loveliness.  He has given you grace of speech to declare His good will, loving-kindness, and favor. You constantly tell of His mercy, forgiveness, and pardon. In you He displays His strength and power. You are a portrait of your Father, who constantly increases you in knowledge and all other Christian virtues.  Others see how you are blessed and prospering, thriving in every area of your life. You are a salty believer who causes others to thirst for the kind of relationship that you have with your Heavenly Father.  

Rejoice and be glad in what He has done and is doing through you.

 

 

 

(Originally written 8/1/04)