When God made us, He had a purpose for each one of us that we become a blessing to others in our own unique way. We all have different talents and gifts and abilities, opportunities. We come from different backgrounds, have different intellectual levels, different interests, different education levels and in so many other areas where we all are different. It is God who made us different and thus have what is generally called beauty in diversity.
God had a purpose even in our differences that each of us should be a blessing to all the others in our own unique way. 1Cor 12:12 says that we are all members of the body of Christ but we are different; one is a hand, the other is the foot, eye, tongue, kidneys, liver and so on. All these parts have different functions and all are different from each; in fact even the right and left hands are different but they work together, the thumb of one hand is on the right and on the other hand is on the left.
If the hand tries to be the foot; it will be hindrance to the whole body; but if it does the work of a hand it will be a blessing to the whole body; In the same way, if you as a believer tries to do the work the work of another; you will be a curse to the whole body, but if you do what God has called you to do you will be a blessing.
In the same church, different people, have different burdens. One has a burden on the children ministry, another on youth, another on development and so on. All these individuals will bless the church if they do the work God has given them to do.
Our differences should be a reason for our not working together; but the secret of the parts working together is that they are all connected to each other through the head and they both receive instructions from the head and have blood flowing in them. In the same way, if we are to work in fellowship, we first of all must receive instructions from the head and the blood of Christ must flow is us continually cleansing and giving us power to do the tasks we receive from our Head Christ Jesus.
Depending on the purpose God wants you to fulfill, He will give different gifts, abilities and burdens from others because your purpose is different from others. It is the Holy Spirit who choses which gifts to give to every person. 1Cor 12:11. There is no one person who has all the gifts and there is no single gift which all believers have; 1Cor 12:27-30
God is calling us to seek Him with all our hearts so that He can enable us fulfill the good plans He has for us which are all recorded in the book written all the things we are to do in all the days of our earthly lives which were planned from the foundation of the world. Jer 29:11-13, Psalm 139:16, Eph 2:10
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