Saturday, July 18, 2020

Daily Devotional by John Piper- July 18, 2020

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God's Grace in Spiritual Gifts

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace. (1 Peter 4:10)

Future grace is "varied grace." It comes in many colors and shapes and sizes. This is one of the reasons spiritual gifts in the body are so diverse. The prism of your life will refract one of the colors of grace that would never come through my prism.

There are as many future graces as there are needs in the body of Christ — and more. The purpose of spiritual gifts is to receive and dispense the future grace of God to those needs.

But someone may ask, "Why do you take Peter to refer to future grace? Doesn't a steward manage a household store that is already on hand?"

The main reason I take Peter to refer to future grace is because the next verse illustrates how this works, and the reference there is ongoing supplies of future grace. He says, "Whoever serves . . . by the strength that God supplies — in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 4:11).

When you fulfill your spiritual gift to serve someone tomorrow, you will be serving "by the strength that God supplies" tomorrow. The word is supplies, not supplied.

God goes on, day-by-day, moment-by-moment, supplying the "strength" in which we minister.

 
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