I am very grateful for God’s work in my life; I am empty and useless unless he is working in me. I believe one of my possible spiritual gifts is compassion. Teachers of mine used to tell me this characteristic that they observed in me, but I rejected it because the world or perhaps the environment that I grew up in did not consider it to be a positive element. I believe it now, and I also refuse to deem it as a negative characteristic. It is a gift that God has deposited in me. The ways I can use this gift within my ministry calling is to have compassion towards discovering new ways to reach the outcast of the world. One way in which I have felt discouraged or unworthy to use this gift recently is when I noticed a discouraged friend of mine who needed some encouragement. God was using my gift to lift up this friend of mine. I end with a quote from John Bunyan, “although gifts are good to accomplish the task they are designed for-the edification of others-yet they are empty and without power to save the soul unless God is using them.”
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