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Guidance Promised to Find Your Gift, July 30
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every
man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians 12:11
.
We are to be guided and controlled by the same Spirit, but in order for this
to be, it is not necessary that we all have the same gifts. “There are diversities
of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations,
but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same
God which worketh all in all” (
1 Corinthians 12:4-6
), to bring these different
operations into perfect harmony. God hath “set the members every one of
them in the body as it hath pleased Him” (
verse 18
). He has placed every man
at his post of duty, assigning to him a given work. If you have any question
as to your post of duty, pray to God for guidance, and your work will be
assigned. God has told us expressly that He has placed every man at his post.
“To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another
the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to
another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of
tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh that
one and the selfsame Spirit” (
1 Corinthians 12:8-11
).
“But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the
gift of Christ.... When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and
gave gifts unto men.... He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and
some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the
saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till
we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ”
(
Ephesians 4:7-13
). Here the members of the church of God are shown acting
their different parts, all under the supervision of the great Master Worker, who
knows just what each one in His service should do to meet the necessities
that arise.—
Bible Training School, April 1, 1903
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