The Gift Part 2

There are Spiritual gifts and there are natural gifts. Every “good and perfect gift” comes from God; James 1: 17, 18. In our lifetime we will receive a lot of gifts; Christmas gifts, birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, “just because” gifts and so on and so forth. God is a giver; God gives gifts – God’s most precious gift to us is, of course, regeneration through the new birth and the restoration of His Kingdom here on earth. The Creator God has given an endowment to every human being. God has given a gift to every person who has been or ever will be born into the earth. We’ve all been given an inborn capacity to take on the nature of God Himself and thereby fulfill a specific plan for our life and the lives of everyone we touch throughout our lifetime. Adam and Eve set the reproductive process in motion and bore the human race. We have a predisposition to connect with the God who created Adam and Eve. Understanding this makes it easy to follow a destiny that is unique to each individual and helps us to enjoy the good life that God’s plan and purpose provides.

Of all the gifts that are good and pleasurable and necessary to living the good life there is one gift that is totally unique. It is the gift that God installs inside us; it’s like buried treasure. In the same way that fingerprints and DNA are unique to every person; it is a gift that no one else on earth has. This “gift” we’ve been given is God’s “investment” in us. It is a gift placed “in us” and it is God’s gift to the world that is expressed “through us.” Call it flair, call it instinct, call it genius, call it potential, intellectual ability, resolve or call it talent and ability; it’s “the stuff” that makes you the “you” that God predestined “you” to be and it’s “what it takes” to enable your life to bring glory to Him. Maybe you never thought about your life actually bringing glory to God and maybe you don’t intend to live a lifestyle that brings glory to God; it’s your life and you’re free to choose. If, for some reason, you don’t want your life to glorify God then prepare to choose your battles and fight them alone but you still possess a talent and ability that was given to by The Creator. What you choose to do with your gift is totally up to you. Your talent carries great responsibility. It is meant to produce an intimate relationship with Creator God; for you and for the people who are affected by God’s gift in you. Whether you’re a world renowned concert pianist or a cracker-jack auto mechanic your gift makes room for you in this world and everywhere your gift is used it should establish God’s covenant and show forth His love to all mankind; you are an ambassador and your gift is a peace offering. The gift does not belong to you but it is free to you and whether you choose to use it for good or evil, right or wrong, genius or stupid is up to “the free agent” God created you to be. You alone will answer for the way you used your God given gift and the destiny that is tied to it. Your gift is unique to you and you alone but it affects the destinies of everyone in your sphere of influence.

Deuteronomy 8: 18 says, “you shall remember the Lord your God for it is He who gives you the power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.” The “power” he’s talking about is your gift; it is our native ability to use our strength’s to produce a positive end. It is an empowerment that enables us to fulfill God’s plan and purpose for the life we live on this earth; it is your God given talent and ability to amass wealth to bring prosperity into your life until it overflows into the lives of everyone around us. We are “blessed to be a blessing” to others. God’s ultimate intention; the hope of His calling in us is “to establish His covenant in the earth.” If your ability to play the guitar transforms you into a Superstar then you have a decision to make. If your talent for throwing a football or hitting a baseball brings worldwide attention to you then you have a decision to make. You have to decide who gets credit for the attention that your gift brings you.
You have to decide how to use your blessing to be a blessing. There are billions of people on the planet and no two DNA samples are alike. In the same way that DNA identifies our biological being – our “spiritual DNA” identifies our spiritual being. The newborn infant is a blank slate; a formatted hard drive awaiting data to be written on it! But, everything the newborn is intended to be has already been created and installed and ready to be activated!

The Bible says much about God’s design for our life.
Psalm 139: 13 - “for You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.”

Jeremiah 1:5 – “before I formed you in the womb I knew and approved of you as My chosen instrument, and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; and I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Romans 8:29, 30 – “for whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, He also called and whom He called He also justified and whom He justified He also glorified.”