gifts for others

I have given you talents, abilities, and gifts. Do you think they are for you? I have given you the illustration of your relationship to others as members of a body. Every member of a body serves some vital purpose for the good of the whole. None exists in isolation, and none exists to serve its own interests alone. If you are gifted to write, it is so others may read. If you create beauty it is for others to enjoy. If you minister life, it is that others may receive life, even as you also receive life from them. You should be grateful for what I have given you and eager to use it. Be unselfish with it, for it is blessed to give.