11-06-24-DAILY READING-ENG.

EXPERIENCING THE SPIRIT

                             EASY TO DO THE HARD THINGS 

Remember again, your spiritual gifts are for the particular assignment God has for you, and assignments are always based on your character. So don't seek gifts of the Spirit—seek the Holy Spirit in His fullness, and let Him prepare you for God's purposes. Nineteenth-century New England Bible teacher A. J. Gordon once said, It costs much to obtain the power of the Spirit: It costs self-surrender and humiliation and a yielding up of our most precious things to God; it costs the perseverance of long waiting, and the faith of strong trust. But when we are really in that power, we shall find this difference, that whereas before, it was hard for us to do the easiest things, now it is easy for us to do the hard things. Let me say it once more: Don't seek the gifts—seek the Giver of gifts. Die to self and allow Him to fill your life. Give Him access to all that you are and ever will be. Then watch the Holy Spirit shape you into a vessel He can use for God's glory.