GIFTINGS GONE WILD

Divine purpose, unique opportunities, spiritual enablements and natural abilities are just some of the gifts God sprinkles along the path for each of us. However, unless practiced in genuine love for God and the people He loves, the exercise of these heavenly endowments can degrade into prideful showmanship, judgmental arrogance or disorderly conduct. I slip into an attitude of self-importance far too easily, so I must carefully practice these divine endowments with the humbleness they require. Dearest Lord, forgive my misuse of bestowed giftings. Deliver me from the need to claim ownership of the right to exercise them and help me practice them with kindness and humility.