Something to Give

“You have something to give.

You have much to offer.

You have gifts placed inside you.

You, yes you...we need you.”

Loren Thornburg

The key to a gift is using it. A gift is a tool to be used to help others. A tool is something we hold to carry out a particular function. We use scissors to help us cut things, we put on glasses to help us read, and use a pen to help us write. The scissors don’t do any good if we just hold them, glasses don’t help us read sitting on top of our head, and a pen doesn’t write if we don’t put it to the paper. Have you ever worked really hard to do something only to find that a tool to make it much easier was with you the whole time. Like having scissors on your desk and trying to tear with your hands a straight line on your paper. It is not enough to simply hold these tools and not use them in their appropriate place and way, nor is it enough for us to simply hold the tools and gifts we have been given and not use them. First, we must know that we each hold gifts that we have been given specifically to help. You have something to give and something to offer! We need you!

“Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. All kinds of things are handed out by the Spirit, and to all kinds of people!”

1 Corinthians 12:7 MSG

We are promised gifts! It says, ‘everyone gets in on it.’ Everyone...that means even you.

That means whether you see it or not you have been given, by the Holy Spirit, something that you can do that will show others who God is. Often I find myself simply holding my gift instead of using it because I don’t know that what I am holding was given for a purpose, was given for more than me. I forget that I don’t just have something, but I have something to give. I am the one holding the pen wondering why no one is writing or writing and sharing with no one. Lets don’t just hold our tools, lets use them, knowing that whatever our tool is it has a purpose and a need for more than just you. Others will find more of who God is when you find you have something to give.