This is a hard one for most people,especially me. By completely surrendering yourself to God, you are giving up everything that is you and replacing it with what is good and pure and right. We have gifts and talents that we horde and do not use for the glorification of Christ.
I didn't really know what my talent or gift was. In fact while writing this, I was stuck on that very thing,.What is my talent? I decided to step away from the computer and really get into the word of God. I was reading in the book of Luke, Chapter 7 verses 36 through 50.
Jesus goes to a pharisees house named Simon to have dinner.While there a woman, who had lived a sinful life kneels before him and starts kissing his feet and pouring on purfume, she even cleans his feet with her tears. The Pharisee was thinking to himself, if Jesus knew the type of women that was washing his feet he would be rethinking this whole situation. Well, of course Jesus knew what the guy was thinking, and he told Simon about two men who owed a certain moneylender. One guy owed 5 hundred denarii and the other owed him 50. The moneylender cancelled both the debts. Jesus asked Simon, which one do you think would love him more. Simon said well the one with the larger debt. Which was the correct answer.
Jesus goes on to say, since he stepped into Simon's house, Simon hadn't offered him any water, yet this women wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. He continued saying , you didn't put oil on my head , but she has poured perfume on me feet. Her many sins have been forgiven for she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little, loves little.
I am Hosea's Gomer, I am the women at the well, I am this women at Jesus's feet. I have sinned much and have been forgiven much. I was the chiefest of sinners. I have done horrible things, that are common place in this day and age. My testimony is my greatest gift. Its also one of the more difficult things for me to talk about. This is where God takes me out of my comfort zone. I have to share my testimony and how God has forgiven and restored my life. This is my gift.
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