This is part 4 of 6 in our Serving series. I have been highlighting several areas that help us better understand that we have been uniquely gifted to serve within the local church. God has designed us with a purpose and He wants to use our gifts, talents, experiences, and passions to touch the lives of those around us. In this post I will highlight how God uses our personality to make a Kingdom impact.
Have you ever wished your personality was different?
By nature I am more of an introvert. To be honest, there are times I struggle when I'm invited to a party with a bunch of people I don't know. It's times like these when I wish I was more of an extrovert. When you find yourself out of your comfort zone...let it remind you that God has created you just the way He wanted. That's a good thing! Let's find out a little more about our personalities...
Our Spiritual Gift(s) helps us answer the WHAT question (What should I do?).
Our Passion helps us answer the WHERE question (Where should I do it?).
Our Personality helps us answer the HOW question (How should I do it?).
Our personality is God-given and He wants us to use that special uniqueness to touch lives for His glory. After all, that is why we serve...To glorify God and to build others up.
Psalm 139 is a fantastic passage that helps us understand God’s creation of ourselves as a unique individual. Looking at the end of verse 16, you will see that God wrote down all the days he had planned for you in His book – before you were ever born. Amazing!
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Psalm 139:13-16 (NIV)
I hope this passage helps you begin to see why God made you the way he did! He has a very special purposes for you, He loves you, and He wants to use you to make an impact.
You are special, you are unique, and you are wonderfully made.
How is God using you?
1 comment:
I believe the choices I make in life as part of the free will that God has extended to me also shape my personality. So my point would be that God has given us a certain predispositions based on our physical/chemical makeup but that our environment including decisions we make for ourselves and those made by others for us have impacts on our personalities.
Those impacts are sometimes to the good and sometimes to the bad. God can use either as He shapes our lives to His will.
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