I do not have any special gifts or abilities. I consider myself to be more of the average guy, at best. This is not a humble assessment to sound pious, it’s just me.There may be an exception–in my younger days I was pretty good at basketball, depending on my opponent. If you are more or less average, join my club. Some people have special talents and skills that make them unique in their hobby or career. There are those who can grasp mathematics on a level that leaves me dumbfounded and feeling like a squirrel. How did they figure that out so easily? Or, how did they figure that out at all? There are others who have mechanical minds or creative minds or physical abilities that enable them to do more than most other people, including the above average squirrel.
“Jeff, is there a spiritual point to all of this?”
As children of God who have been redeemed and delivered out of the domain of darkness into His marvelous light; who have been set free from the enslavement of sin and Satan’s power, we should want more out of this life, more IN THIS LIFE, than those whom we work with, live around, and socialize with who are not walking with the living God. Do I … DO YOU … live a life that is more … than others? After all, because of Jesus you have spiritual privileges and abilities that others–who do not know God, don’t have. You have the Spirit of the living God WITH you, IN you, UPON you. Wow! That separates you into a holy community of saints.
1 Peter 2:9 (NKJV) — But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Do you take advantage of the privilege that Jesus Christ has given you? The privilege of sweet communion with the God who made you, bought you, calls you to Himself, and glorifies you in The Son? Something to think about,right? Do you pray more than those who do not know God? Do you worship Him more than those who do not know Him? Do you serve Him, even think of ways to serve Him, unlike those who do not know Him? Do you seek to know His will through His word, unlike those who do not have the Spirit of Truth? You get the message. So, what do you do more than others?
Here is Thomas Brooks:
What do you more than others? Do you hear? So do others. Do you read? So do others. Oh! but now gracious servants (servants of Christ who are covered in His grace) should go beyond all other servants in the world, they should do singular things for God: Matthew 5:47, ‘What do you more than others?’
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Brooks, T. (1866). The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. (A. B. Grosart, Ed.) (Vol. 2, p. 212). Edinburgh; London; Dublin: James Nichol; James Nisbet and Co.; G. Herbert.
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