Gifts

Spiritual gifts is the topic at my church this month. A friend of mine just shared with me that her church just finished a series on discovering their destiny. I don't know about you but I over think things like this. I start to wonder, what is my purpose in life? What is God's will for my life? What are my gifts? What do I want to do with my life? (What do I want to be when I grow up? since I am only 33!!!!!) As you can see I usually end up with more questions than answers. Part of my Bible study this morning was reading Psalm 119. Yep, that really, really long chapter in the book of Psalms. You wouldn't think of the verses there as a place you would normally look for answers to these types of questions and yet it seemed so clear to me why David was a man after God's own heart. He dedicated every part of his being to knowing and obeying God's Word and then praised God with all he had. I do believe that God has a purpose for us....but I don't think His purpose is for us to find out what our purpose is. I think our purpose is to know and obey the Word of God and then whatever we are doing will be in line with His will. And I do believe we all have gifts but maybe we are too focused on the gifts within us that we end up missing the gifts around us. I have been given the gift of 3 beautiful, healthy children - what am doing with those gifts? I have been given the gift of being a part of the body of Christ by helping in the preschool department - what am I doing with that gift? I have been given the gift of a husband - what am I doing with that gift? I used to get confused by the talents parable because in the Bible it was monetary but calling it a talent always made me think of a talent like drama or singing. If we think of the talents as the type of gifts and blessings I mentioned above it makes a lot more sence to me. (Although I hope he dosen't multipy my husband...I can only handle one of him!)