Written by Margaret Feinberg, a contemporary writer and public speaker. This is an excerpt from her book “The God You Need to Know.”
Sometimes we can believe that what we possess is too ordinary for the Spirit to use. That our knowledge or interests are so commonplace, they can’t possibly amount to anything significant. That the framed accolades or certificates we’ve earned are nothing more than dust collectors or ego boosters. That our observations and hard-won life lessons are just basic life hacks. I don’t know the subjects you’ve studied or the stories you’ve lived. I don’t know the geography you’ve traversed or the people you’ve met along the way. I don’t know the skills you’ve honed since childhood or those you’ve cultivated in adulthood. But this much I know: The Spirit doesn’t waste anything…The Spirit leverages what we consider ordinary — our know-how, experience, and circumstances — and puts it to extraordinary use. The Spirit rummages through the pantry of our lives, pulls out everything we’ve lived and learned, and mixes it all into a delectable divine dish that nourishes the world. Because the Spirit of the one true God does not waste anything.
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. [1 Peter 4:10-11]
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