"For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles -
if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,"
Ephesians 3:1-2 (NKJV)
One of the first jobs I ever had was delivering auto parts for an auto parts store. Different places would call our store to order various parts that they needed to work on cars. Then I would get those parts from our inventory and deliver them. My job was not just to get the parts that someone else needed and keep them for myself, those auto parts were needed by other people to be able to do the work they were involved in. The only reason I had the parts was to give them to someone else, not to keep them for myself.
The Bible shows us that Christians make up the Body of Christ, and that each part of the Body has something to supply that contributes to the overall operation of the Body. All the parts of the Body of Christ are connected and have to work together. God gives each of us a grace, a gift, that we need to use to supply something to the Body. As each part gives what it has to supply, the entire Body benefits, and if some part of the Body of Christ would somehow withhold what it should supply, there would be a problem in the Body.
In Ephesians 3, Paul talked about how God had given him grace, a gift, and that God had actually given it to him for the benefit of the people of Ephesus. In the same way, God gives each of us a grace gift. One of the goals in our life is to discover and develop the grace, the gift, the ability, that God has given us. We need to not only recognize the gift that God has given us, but we must also understand that what we have been given, was given to us for others. The grace, the gift, the ability, that God gives us is meant to be used to help other people and not just kept to ourselves.
if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,"
Ephesians 3:1-2 (NKJV)
One of the first jobs I ever had was delivering auto parts for an auto parts store. Different places would call our store to order various parts that they needed to work on cars. Then I would get those parts from our inventory and deliver them. My job was not just to get the parts that someone else needed and keep them for myself, those auto parts were needed by other people to be able to do the work they were involved in. The only reason I had the parts was to give them to someone else, not to keep them for myself.
The Bible shows us that Christians make up the Body of Christ, and that each part of the Body has something to supply that contributes to the overall operation of the Body. All the parts of the Body of Christ are connected and have to work together. God gives each of us a grace, a gift, that we need to use to supply something to the Body. As each part gives what it has to supply, the entire Body benefits, and if some part of the Body of Christ would somehow withhold what it should supply, there would be a problem in the Body.
In Ephesians 3, Paul talked about how God had given him grace, a gift, and that God had actually given it to him for the benefit of the people of Ephesus. In the same way, God gives each of us a grace gift. One of the goals in our life is to discover and develop the grace, the gift, the ability, that God has given us. We need to not only recognize the gift that God has given us, but we must also understand that what we have been given, was given to us for others. The grace, the gift, the ability, that God gives us is meant to be used to help other people and not just kept to ourselves.
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