In my sober judgment the relation of the Spirit to the believer is the
most vital question the church faces today.
Keys to the Deeper Life, page 15
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February 23
The Holy Spirit: Ungifted Hands
For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good
pleasure. --Philippians 2:13
The important thing is that the Holy Spirit desires to take us and
control us and use us as instruments and organs through whom He can
express Himself in the body of Christ. Perhaps I can use my hands as a
further illustration of this truth.
My hands are about average, I suppose--perhaps a little large for the
size of my body, probably because I had to do a lot of farm work when I
was a boy. But there is something I must tell you about these hands.
They cannot play a violin. They cannot play the organ or the piano. They
cannot paint a picture. They can barely hold a screwdriver to do a small
repair job to keep things from falling apart at home. I have ungifted
hands....
You will agree that it would be foolish for me to try to bring forth any
delightful organ music using such ungifted hands. Is it not appalling,
then, to think that we allow this very thing to happen in the body of
Christ? We enlist people and tell them to get busy doing God's work,
failing to realize the necessity of the Spirit's control and functioning
if there is to be a spiritual result. Tragedy in the Church: The Missing
Gifts, 30-31.
"Lord, maybe the reason we enlist ungifted people is that the gifted
people aren't functioning properly, aren't using the gifts you gifted
them with. Move in our midst, Holy Spirit, that everyone in the Body
might actively serve, each one using the gift He's been given for Your
service. Amen."
Today's "Insight for Leaders" is taken by permission from the book,
Tozer on Christian Leadership, published by WingSpread Publishers
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