Every human on the earth has been given a gift from God. Some of us are aware of our gifts, but many of us are not. People see gifts as an ability to do something extraordinary or an extreme talent, but that is not always the case. We think that people who can play an instrument, sing, give inspiring speeches, draw, or paint have been blessed with a gift and that the rest of the population has been left out. Humans see gifts as something that can only be seen by the eye or heard by the ear.

However, God views gifts in a very different way. Many of the gifts that He has given people cannot be seen or heard. The gift of talking to people, the gift of love, compassion, empathy, generosity, prayer, and influence are some of the most important gifts that people can be given. Our job is to discover these gifts and use them to serve our fellow man. We should use these gifts to help people who are less fortunate than we are. In doing so, we are doing a great service to God, and we are honoring Him and the gifts that He has given to us. Many of us feel like we have nothing to offer the world or God. We feel like all we can do is live our lives and try our best to be the best person we can be. While that is a very important goal and something that we should all aspire to, we should also realize that we have been given a gift that we can use to help others.

We have all been placed on this earth for a purpose. God has a grand plan, and the plan has been in motion for centuries. We were placed in this moment of time for a reason. We were not just haphazardly placed here without any thought. God placed us here to fulfill His purpose and to make the world a better place. We are supposed to help other people. Life on earth can often be difficult, and we need help in navigating it. While God should be and is our ultimate guide, He has placed people in our lives to guide us along the way too. We all have people who we depend on and turn to when things get difficult. We often do not realize that God has placed those people in our lives for a reason. While we can acknowledge that those people exist in our lives, we often find it difficult to realize that we have been placed in people’s lives to help them too. It is not that God is too busy or not interested in helping people, but He wants to use us to help others.

Many people can accept help from other people, but they have trouble having faith that God can help them. When they do accept help from the people in their lives, they are accepting help from God. Hopefully, in time they will realize that, and their relationships with God will be strengthened. So, as you have probably figured out by now, we have all been given many jobs to do on this earth. We need to discover what our purpose is and what gifts we have been given and use those to help others. When we help others, we make God proud. We not only make someone else’s life better, but we make our own lives better too.

I cannot express enough how much God wants us to help others and how much He wants us to discover the gifts that He has given us. Sometimes we may use these gifts and be completely unaware of it. Not knowing what our gift is does not keep us from using it and blessing other people with it. Many times the gift we have is something that we always known we possessed; we just never thought of it as a gift. God can and will reveal our gift to us when we ask Him to.

The most important thing to remember is that we have all been given gifts to use as armor to help others and ourselves. We have a purpose, and we are important to God and countless others. When we realize that, it will bring us peace, and PEACE MATTERS.

~Dan~