The gift that's been sitting in a drawer
There’s an image that came to me while I was preparing today’s devotional, and I can’t quite let it go.
Think of a really good tool - a beautiful kitchen knife, a proper set of spanners, a camera you were genuinely excited about. At first you used it. Then life got busy. And now it’s at the back of the cupboard, still sharp, still good, completely unused.
I wonder if some of your gifts are like that.
Not forgotten exactly. Just quietly turned inwards - used for comfort, or for self-protection, or simply never quite pointed at anyone in particular.
Paul writes to the church at Corinth - a church full of noise and comparison and competition - and he cuts through all of it with one sentence. “A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other” (1 Corinthians 12:7).
That little phrase, each other, is the whole point. It turns the entire conversation about gifts and calling from self-discovery into something much more beautiful - mutual service.
Frances Ridley Havergal captured it in her hymn: “Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love.” She wasn’t asking God to make her more capable. She was asking him to redirect what she already had.
That’s the prayer I came away with today. Not give me more - but redirect what I’ve already got.
Your gifts belong in every area of your life - at work, at home, on your street, in your church. You don’t need a platform. You just need one person, this week.
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Grace and peace.
Rob
Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/you-dont-have-to-keep-feeling-stuck?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true