"Each one of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's Grace in it's various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 4 v 10 - 11).
God has gifted each of us with either speaking or serving talents (or both) that we are to use to serve each other. Serving each other is the reason God gives us gifts in the first place. One of the keys to using those gifts is the word "faithfully." "Faithfully administering God's grace..." To faithfully administer God's grace through the talents we are given, we will make sure we don't pass up any opportunity to help. We will use our gifts in the way God intended us to use them.
But administering God's grace also requires teamwork. I have something to give and you have something to give. When we all share the parts of God's grace we have been given, we will start to make up the complete grace of God in our combined lives. God's grace will be shown in various ways by all of us, and together we make a whole.
Let's use the gifts we have been given so that God's grace will increase and God may be praised through Jesus Christ.
May the blessings of God overflow from us this week.
(Quote from Bro.Roberts Prins- Author of "Thinky Things")
