My church is in the thick of a series – Gifts from God. Last Friday, our small-group leader asked us if we have discovered our gifts. This leads me to this week’s deep thought. When I think of Spiritual gifts, I think of Christmas. Every time I unwrap my Christmas presents, I get this thrill when I first discover what’s in each wrapper.

Same idea – we should be just the same about the gifts from God. Often, we spend too much time digesting Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12 that we end up not doing anything at all.

In Matthew 25v14-28, Jesus tells of a man going on a journey and decides to entrust his possessions to his slaves. So he calls them one by one and gives each of them a portion of his estate according to their abilities. (Matthew 25v15)

Just Do It – One of the best tag lines in advertising is probably Nike’s – Just Do It. When I think of Spiritual gifts I’d say just do it. Get involved. We don’t know how good or bad we are at something until we do it.

We often end up like the servant in verse 18 because we spend too much time trying to find “our calling”, “a ministry that suits us”, “our Spiritual gift” and the list goes on. What does the master say to this servant? He reprimands him and takes whatever the servant has been given and gives it to the another! What we don’t realize is that God has already entrusted us with something, it doesn’t matter what we do, we just need to do something about it.

I find this quite contrasting since he (the master) doesn’t comment on the results of the first two. He praised their efforts. From this we can conclude that all God is requiring from us is just do it.
When we are just doing it, there are times we’re going to also realize that things are not working out as planned. I like to suggest that for us to do the long haul, we need to establish three areas in our lives to sustain us while we exercise our gifts. They are Faith, God-Confidence and Pre-Decision.

“Dash” of Faith – One of my favorite movies is “The Incredibles”. I love it so much because the characters in the story reflect so much of us.

Dash couldn’t wait to use his super power. He ran into a couple of fixes but he never quite thinks that second thought. He just did it. We need that Dash of faith that Jesus speaks of in Matthew 19v13-14. Jesus says that the kingdom of God is made of children. I think God wants us to be like that, totally trusting Him, putting our faith completely in Him.

God-Confidence – There’s another character in the movie that I love so much because she knows who she is and no one messes with her – Edna Mode.

I love it when Edna says “Supermodels! Heh! Nothing super about them…. I used to design for *gods*!” We need Edna’s attitude. She was so sure of her gift and who it served. Likewise, our confidence must be like that – our gifts serve a purpose – God!

Edna is not a super but she was so proud of her role – designing super suits. When we find out what we are good at, be proud of those things. They are God-given! They are meant to serve a super plan – God’s purpose.

Hobbit’s Decision – My last illustration comes from a hobbit by the name of Frodo. If you have seen The Lord of the Rings, you’ll know that Frodo wished the ring was never found by him.

Sometimes we are like Frodo, we wished we weren’t given a task. I like the advise Gandalf (Frodo’s mentor) gave him. It is up to us to decide what to do with the time that is given to us.

This brings me back to Matthew 25v14-28. God doesn’t ask us for anything us except our decision to do something with what He has given us. Imagine what God can achieve if we just make that small decision.

I chose these three characters because they were all small in stature. Yet, each of them did BIG things. We may be small in our faith but if we had the Dash’s faith, Edna’s confidence and heed Gandalf’s advice, imagine what God can do through us.

We don’t serve just any god. We serve a God who’s a Super. If that being the case, aren’t we children of a Super? So which super are we?