As I continue working on that class on spiritual gifts, I realize that there is more that we can learn about God’s character from this study than I spoke about in yesterday’s post.  Here are three more:

1. God values order and unity

2. God is trustworthy, and He trusts us.

3. God desires relationship with us.

Yesterday I spoke about how it strikes me as being sad that God has given us so many amazing gifts to build up the body of Christ, and yet so often we don’t use them, or at least that so many of us don’t.  Today, I want to take just a minute to look at how inspiring the gifts are.  Consider the first point, God places such a value on order and unity; who among us doesn’t want the same thing for the church?  None of us wants chaos, disorder and division!  Why do we keep these things going?

Consider the second point: We can trust God! Maybe this isn’t anything we aren’t already aware of, but how often do we think about the next part: God trusts us…?

He trusts us with His treasure; He gives us Himself so as to build us up into something we could never become on our own!  No wonder there are great Christians in the world who are working together to build the body of Christ!  No wonder there are churches in this world that are making such a fantastic difference for Christ!  For the rest of us, how is it that we aren’t all jumping on board to make a difference, that we are attracted by the allurements of this life, or caught up in silly arguments?  Come on gang, let’s get with it!

And finally, it all comes back to the place where we begin with the Gospel: God wants a relationship with us!

I think that when enough of us just come to realize what a powerful concept this is: Relationship with God… we will knock off with the distractions and squabbles and join into the work of building His Kingdom with boldness and enthusiasm, holding nothing back and accomplishing great things for the Gospel… so let’s get to work!