Skip to main content

Genuine Love

Romans 12:6
“We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. 
How absolutely amazing that each one of us in IGNITE class 14 brings something entirely different to the table? We all have a variety of different backgrounds, upbringings, personalities, and gifts. But yet, the Lord has called us together in accordance to fulfill a specific purpose for His glory and with such a variety, He is able to accomplish incredible works through us. The things that I excel in, others may be weak in, whereas where I am weak, others may excel. Where someone has a gift of leadership, another has a gift of hospitality. Similarly, when we attempt to force a calling on our own life that the Lord has simply not called us to to, things are bound to get messy. I love nursing, I love every aspect that nursing has to offer, but I have not always enjoyed working in health care. I have so often found myself looking into a different career path because of the attitude I had towards the position I had at the hospital where I was employed. However, since being here, the Lord has confirmed on multiple occasions His gift to me of caring for others and the genuine love I have for those in need, a love that I never realized I had because I was so self absorbed. He has also shown me that just because I left the hospital setting, I will never be able to completely clock out because regardless of where I am, people are always capable of becoming ill or injured. Though caring for others is something I have a gifting in, I have attempted to redirect my life in the direction of teaching. I figured that it was cheaper, easier, and quicker to receive a degree in this area, but the door for this opportunity remained closed. The Lord has an interesting way of keeping me centered in His will for my life and I would rather live in willful submission than spiraling rebellion because His way is for my good anyways.

Application
Today, I will thank the Lord for giving me the gift of caring for others and ask Him to give me the ability to willfully submit to whatever it is that He has planned for my life as far as a career. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Off Balance

1 Corinthians 12:14-15 “ Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.” Simply spoken, even when we feel as though we do not belong, that does not mean we are allowed to quit. Each one of us has a vitally important role in the body of Christ, just as the foot plays a vitally important role to the body. Without the foot, the body would be off balance and we would not be able to walk. Without the ability to walk, how would the will of God be fulfilled? It wouldn’t. Similarly, we must be willing to submit to the calling the Lord has placed on our lives without being quick to reject it. His plan is perfect, and even if it is something we are not accustomed to, if it is in His will, it will pan out for our good and His glory. I despised the majority of my time as a nurses aide, and looking back, I realize now that I was relying on stre...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Remedy

1 Timothy 4:8 “For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.” To be disciplined in exercising our physical bodies, we must push ourselves everyday to do more, to be better. We must endure the pain that follows if we want to remain fit but after a while, it becomes routine and though the pain might still be evident, it is no longer bothersome. It becomes so routine that it feels odd when we do not do it, as if we are breaking a law that we ourselves have put in place. In the same way, we must exercise our faith in the Lord on a daily basis to remain in His will for our lives. Our Father strives to have that personal relationship with us, but like any earthly relationship, it takes effort; it takes prayer, reading, and listening to what the Father is conveying to us. Though exercising our physical bodies may give us relief for a short while, spending quality time with the Lord is...
Post a Comment
Read more

Vertical Identity

Psalms 139:13-14 “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.” It is so easy to get caught up in the lies of the enemy who whispers in my ear that I am not good enough. It is so easy to look to the left and to the right at my sisters in Christ and compare myself to their seeming flawlessness, forgetting that Jesus died for their sins, too. Sure, I am louder and more outspoken than most, but this by no means indicates that the Lord loves me any less because He created me to be that way. It is only when I come to accept these aspects about myself that I consider to be so detrimental that the Lord can use them for His glory and my good. Does this mean that I will assume perfection? Absolutely not, but it does mean that I no longer have to be a slave to self-hatred. It means that I no longer have to rely on horizontal approval when my identity...
Post a Comment
Read more