神的工作

最近忙着修神学课，读课程要求的书，还要准备主日学的课程，LD还要准备神学院的考试。 忙碌之中又有些困惑， 不知道where this is leading us to，前天早上灵修前向神求问这一切都是处于神吗？原本期望神赐给我一些激励的经文，可是每日灵粮的经文是士师记11：1-8，29关于耶弗他的故事，好像跟自己没什么关系，但是读到灵修文章的后来看到：

God so often seems to choose the unlikeliest people to do His work, doesn’t He? It doesn’t matter where we’re from, how we got here, or what we’ve done. What matters is that we respond in faith to His love.

这给了我很大的鼓励，神是成万事的神，我不是来质疑神能在我身上做什么，而是要单单回应祂的呼召，忠心与祂。

当天又收到Gideon牧师的邮件讲属灵的恩赐，

It is important to understand that a spiritual gift is a manifestation of the Holy Spirit working in people’s lives to enable them to obey what God asks them to do.  Biblically, God always gives the assignment first.  Then God equips the person by the Holy Spirit to accomplish what He assigns.  We must remember that when we became Christians, God placed Holy Spirit within us.  We did not merely receive a spiritual gift; we received the Spirit Himself.

The common approach to spiritual gifts can easily become self-centered rather than God-centered if you are the one who is taking the initiative to decide on a ministry that you think suits you.  God does not ask us to find ministries we think match our giftedness. … We can’t discover God’s activity. God must reveal it to us. We don’t choose what we will do for God. He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.

这里更是让我看到我不应定睛在我是否能做这件事，或者我有什么才能恩赐来使用，而是神将什么负担放在我的身上，神要我做什么，我要怎么回应。

感谢神的回答和带领！