Today’s Daily Lesson comes from 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verses 4 through 11:
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
We are to be content with who we are and what our gifts are. These things are enough. These things are adequate. In fact, they are beyond adequate; they are marvelous. I —just as I am — am a marvelous creation. I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
To doubt myself is to doubt my creator. To doubt my inadequacy is to disagree with God. God thinks I have what I need to really make a contribution in this world.
God made me who I am. Wishing to be somebody else, with their gifts and their assignments, means missing out on the extraordinary human being who greets me every morning in the mirror.
In the old Hasidic story, when Rabbi Zusya was not too far from death he said to his disciples, “In the age to come they will not ask me, ‘Why were you not Moses?” They will ask me, ‘Why were you not Zusya?”
I’m planning to be Ryon today. He’s got gifts. He’s got an assignment. God has something important for him to do.
How about you? Who are you going to be today?
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