The important thing is that the Holy Spirit desires to take us and control us and use us as instruments and organs through whom He can express Himself in the body of Christ. Perhaps I can use my hands as a further illustration of this truth.<\/p>\n
My hands are about average, I suppose\u2014perhaps a little large for the size of my body, probably because I had to do a lot of farm work when I was a boy. But there is something I must tell you about these hands. They cannot play a violin. They cannot play the organ or the piano. They cannot paint a picture. They can barely hold a screwdriver to do a small repair job to keep things from falling apart at home. I have ungifted hands.\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n
You will agree that it would be foolish for me to try to bring forth any delightful organ music using such ungifted hands. Is it not appalling, then, to think that we allow this very thing to happen in the body of Christ? We enlist people and tell them to get busy doing God\u2019s work, failing to realize the necessity of the Spirit\u2019s control and functioning if there is to be a spiritual result.<\/p>\n
1 Corinthians 12:1\u201311; Philippians 2:12\u201313<\/p>\n
Tragedy in the Church: The Missing Gifts,<\/i> 30, 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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