Be Still And Know

1 Peter 4:10-11 God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. The New Testament is absolutely clear that we each have a gift. But isn’t it interesting that, so often, when we identify someone’s particular gift we focus our attention on the receiver and not the giver? We talk about a gifted musician or preacher or cake maker and praise them for their gift. But if we believe that such skills and abilities are a gift from God then, surely, we should be praising him for his generosity. In these verses, Peter encouraged his readers to remember where their gifts came from, and their need to keep their eyes on God as they used them. Peter illustrated his point in two ways. Firstly, he spoke of those who have the gift of speaking. This is a particularly intere