Stop Stashing!

Stop Stashing!

Recently I was reading in 1st Peter 4:10 where the bible says that each of us have received a gift from Him and that we are to use the gifts to serve others well!  I feel like a lot of times in our lives, we are stashing away our gifts to serve others well instead of using our gifts to serve others well. 

God never places things in our hands to just lay dormant. He is looking for us to use what He has placed in our hands to serve others well.  You may say " I serve every week at church!! " I know that feeling but we must gauge our service to the Lord with what His Word says! I think its amazing if you serve every week but the bible doesn't say to just serve.  It says to serve others well. 

What does that look like for us?  I know that the Lord has been dealing with me to get specific in the different areas I am involved in in serving Him.  It pleases Him when we don't just do enough but when we go over and above in our serving.  We can't effectively serve others well if we are just doing enough to get by. 

When we begin to get specific with all the details of the areas we serve in and what we can do to make it flow better or be more prepared, we will see God show up in greater measures.  I am reminded of the story with the widow and the oil found in 2 kings 4.

She could would have missed out on an extraordinary miracle in provision had she stashed what she had instead of using it how God told her to through Elisha.  When she humbled herself to a leader and went all out in what the servant of the Lord told her to do, it preserved her whole house hold in a crazy famine.

She received major increase because she used what God gave her for the prophet.  She served Elisha well and it turned out to be over and above what she could conjure up!

Faithful is He who calls you, and He will bring it to pass!!