Your Signature Sin and Your Signature Gifting -
Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalm 139:23-24 (NLT)
Pastor’s Blog
Each of us is gifted. Humility demands that we accept this fact, that we are gifted, and that gifting is gift we have nothing to do with. There is nothing to be proud of in that. However, every gifting has is corresponding downside. The pattern of your sin is related to the pattern of your gifts. It’s an important spiritual practice to ask God to reveal all of what our hearts hold.
Greek mythology spoke of the nemesis, your mortal enemy. Your nemesis is like you in almost every way except that he is ruined version of you. Servers love to be needed. Yet they can slip into helping out of their own neediness which can cause their serving to be kind of taking. Thinkers like to be in the know – about everything! But knowledge can puff up and they can end up loving being right more than they love people.
Spend some time asking God to reveal to you your “nemesis”. Self awareness is both a way to open yourself to God and also a way to make yourself less likely to be manipulated by Satan.
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great thoughts to start the day... to accept God's way of creating me and then to prayfully start the day asking that He search me and lead me in His everlasting way on this day!
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