Romans 12:6-8, Paul talks
about our gifts that have been given to us by Christ.
What is that thing you do
that satisfies you like nothing else? As most of you know my gift is a
mechanical aptitude. Nothing satisfies me more then solving a mechanical issue.
For a lot of years I didn’t understand how this gift could be used to further Gods
kingdom until God gave me a clear vision and said to me “just go and let me
show you how the gift I gave you can be used.” I’m going to spare you the long
list of places that I have been able to use this gift, but what I will say is
God has shown me immensely how my gift can be used.
Not only have I used my
mechanical gift, he has also awakened other gifts that I never really even knew
I had or maybe I knew I had but I didn’t think I would like using them. O.K.
people this is really hard for a person like me to even write this, but I think
God may have given me a gift for public speaking (no, right now I’m not very
good at it and need practice) but I really am starting to like it. It makes me
feel good to get up and talk about what God has done and is doing in my life.
Now, another part of God
given gifts is accepting and using the help of other peoples’ God given gifts.
We (the McGee family) have been given the gift of working along with
JungleMaster Ministries. Let me explain how this works. The McGee’s raise
monthly support to do ministry work in Peru but the monthly support they raise
only covers the costs of living in Peru. JungleMaster ministry has logistical
tools (boat, house, supplies, many other things) that the McGees get to use to
help support JungleMaster ministry along with doing some of there own ministry.
We also have been able to use my mechanical gifts along with JungleMaster
Ministries gifts to help other ministries here on the river and in Nauta. What
I see is these gifts are all a part of the body of Christ. I see a lot of people in
ministry who are trying to do it all on their own, this wasn’t how God designed
it, we HAVE to work together to get the job done.
