Our Gifts Differ

A number of people sent bouquets of flowers to our family in the last few days to help us commemorate my wife’s departure to Heaven. I would like you to look at some of them in the photos below:They are really beautiful but that is largely due to the variety of shapes and colours. You may be drawn to the rose in the first photo or the lily that takes “center stage” in the second photo, but it is the “supporting actors” with their variety of designs that make the bouquets so impressive, even the tiny flowers and the leaves all have their part to play. The same thing applies to our meals: If you go into a restaurant and the menu indicates that Roast Beef is their today’s special and you order it, you would be quite shocked and disappointed if they bring you a plate with a chunk of Roast Beef on it and nothing else, because you would have probably been expecting roast potato and pumpkin, to say the least, as those sorts of vegetables (although not as impressive as the beef) are an important part of the meal.

If those flowers above represented a group of people, which one of them would represent you? Not many people would claim “center stage” and some would even think that the tiny “Sweet William” was about where they would fit in. If that is so for you, it is nothing to be ashamed of as God went to a lot of trouble to design each flower to be the compliment of the others, and He did that with us too, as Paul pointed out in Romans Chapter 12 Verse 6 “that we all have gifts differing according to the grace given unto us” (in the Spiritual field that is), but it also applies to every part of our lives as He pointed out in 1 Corinthians Chapter 12: Verse 12, that it is the same in our bodies, for example “the head cannot say to the foot I don’t need you”. In short, every part of our body needs the support of all the other parts if we are to be complete and function efficiently. As Christians we each represent a part of the body of Christ and it is immaterial whether we seem to be an important part or not; we just need to ask God’s guidance to do our best so we can fill the spot for which He designed us.

After all, when we consider that our sins are forgiven, (if we accept God’s wonderful forgiveness), then, surely the least we can do is endeavour to do His will so we can achieve whatever it is that He wants us to do in order to help others.

I believe that my lovely wife Audrey, did that and what a blessing she was to so many people.

May God bless you as you think about that.

Tom.