Many Gifts, One Spirit

Have you ever wondered what God is trying to tell you? Have you ever felt frustrated because you don’t believe God is speaking to you at all? It may be that you just don’t recognize His voice.

God speaks to us through the gifts He has given us. Each one of us is given a unique set of gifts, and there are no small gifts. “To each individual some manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.” These gifts are not given to us to hoard and use for our own pleasure, they are given to us to help one another, to benefit the common good. As these are God-given gifts they are by definition supernatural gifts. Even if they seem common or mundane, we can trust in their ability to work supernatural wonders.

We cannot give our lives meaning, purpose and  joy by our own efforts, just as the servants at the Wedding at Cana could not provide 25 gallons of wine on their own. But we must still do all we can with what we have been given and let God take over from there. The servants filled the jars with water, and God took the water and turned it into wine. We must develop our gifts through training and education and practice and allow God to work miracles with what we bring to Him.

Our talents are God’s gifts to us, what we do with them is our gift to God.

If you feel that God is not speaking to you perhaps you are simply not listening. What are the gifts you have been given and how can you use them for the benefit of others? God speaks to us through the gifts He has given us, it is for us to listen, and do as He tells us.