Faithful People Serve Others

In 1 Peter 4:10 it says, “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.” (NLT)

God uses my talents to test my unselfishness.

I have to decide in life who or what I’m going to live for. I’m either going to live a self-centered, miserly life or I’m going to live for something greater than myself—the kingdom of God.

Faithful people don’t live for themselves. They realize that the talents God gave them are not for their own benefit. They’re meant to make the world a better place.

When God made me, he gave you all kinds of gifts, talents, abilities, and experiences. Those things make me me. There’s nobody like me in the whole world, and he wants me to be me for his glory.

God shaped me to serve him, and there’s only one way to do that: by serving other people.

I may have a talent for art and say that I do it “just because you love to do it.” That’s nice, but that’s not a good enough motive. God didn’t give me artistic ability just so I can love to do it. He gave it to me so I can use my art to help other people in some way.

Some of us have an ability to fix things. Some of us are good at math. Some of us are good at closing deals. Some of us are good at music. Some of us are good at organizing. And some of us are good at gardening.

God made us all different so that everything in the world gets done. If we all liked to do the same thing, then there would be a whole lot left undone.

The Bible says in 1 Peter 4:10, “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another” (NLT).

I’m the steward of my talents, and God is watching to see if I use what he gave me on earth to bless other people. If I use them effectively on earth, then he’s going to give me more responsibility in heaven—and those responsibilities will bring me joy forever!