Nailed on the head! So I took my spiritual gifts test and the top two results were missionary and discernment. As my first sentence suggests, I believe that these truly describe my desires and calling in life
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My first gift, according to the test, is missionary. Surprisingly, this is what my end goal is. I would like to be a missionary and I am drawn to people overseas. The site that I took this test on states that people with the missionary gift “have an intense spirit of unease at the thought of all the unsaved people in the world,” and “desire to minister to unreached people in other communities or countries.” When reading these two phrases, I feel as if they describe me. Over the course of my high school years through mission trips and church retreats, my love and compassion for missions developed. In my mission trip to New Orleans my sophomore year, I developed a heart for last people. I am not quite sure how to articulate this feeling, but I can only say that my heart hurt for people who didn’t even have the chance to know Christ. I have every desire to make this truth known to everybody and it deeply grieves me that people go through life without once hearing the good news of how much Christ loves us and what He did for us through the cross. To me, life without feeling the love of Christ is no life at all, and my greatest desire is to share Christ’s love to everyone.
My second gift is discernment. I almost feel cocky when I talk about this, so this summary might be a little shorter. I believe this gift truly describes me. Like the definition explains, I am good at deciding what truth is and what error is. It is easy for me to pick out fallacies in logic and to decide what is good to take in and listen to and what is not. I believe this gift has greatly helped me in difficult times in my life because I usually know what is right. It has also been a good foundation on which my faith can rest. One thing I enjoy with this gift is utilizing it to help my friends through troubles. This gift allows me to think rationally about a situation and give advice that applies. So, I guess what I’m really trying to say is that this gift of discernment has played a big role in my life. Without it I would make lot of stupid mistakes and probably have a lot more broken bone stories.
So here is it my two biggest gifts. Hopefully I described them well enough and it makes sense!
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