Since being here at JBU I have really been able to look into and to evaluate what my spiritual gifts and strengths are. For my Gateway class I took a spiritually strengths assessment test thing, and in Honors Orientation I had the opportunity to complete a spiritually gifts assessment. The results are as follows.
My top five spiritual strengths are: Adaptability, Belief, Ideation, Developer, and Responsibility
My top two spiritual gifts (as seen in the last post) are: Missionary and Discernment
When looking at these two lists, I quickly see how they fit together. Mainly, I see how each of my strengths can be used to develop my gift of missionaryness.
The first being adaptability. I can see this coming into play when life doesn’t go according to my plan. It will be easy for me to adapt to new plans and quickly change my course of action.
Next, is belief. One thing in being a missionary is that you have to be strongly grounded in your faith. The field brings many trials and without a strong foundation it is easy to be crushed. I believe that belief allows me to have a strong foundation on which to rest. I know what I believe and I know what ground is good for standing.
My third spiritual gift ideation helps me create new ideas to be pursued on the mission field. There are so many possibilities of what I could do on the mission field running around that sometimes I do not know where to start.
Fourthly, with the gift of developer, I am able to take these ideas out of my head and put them into action. With this I also see the potential in people which I believe is and important trait when sharing Christ with people.
Lastly, Responsibility. This means that I like doing what I say I’m going to do. In fact, it I get extremely frustrated when I don’t have the ability to finish something to which I have committed. In the missions field I think this will allow me to get things done. Like developer it will drive my ideas into a tangible existence.
When looking back through this list, I am reminded about who God is. If he gives someone a passion and a desire to do something, he is going to equip them for the task. God does not taunt dreams and ambitions in our face only to watch us fail because we are not equipped. So looking at this fit of gifts and strengths, I am overwhelmed with God’s love and care for his children and their dreams. God is great.
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