Keep on Keeping On // Rekindling the Flame, Part 4

<p>Doesn’t matter what our gig is in life, when we choose to use that God-given gift specifically to honour God, to bless other people, on thing’s for certain – the going’s going to get tough.We’re going to hit opposition. And if that goes on for any length of time, the one thing that we really want to do, is just to give up.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Keep Shining</strong></span></h3> <p>Over these last few weeks, we have been chatting about rekindling the gift that God has put within each one of us. And you know the exciting thing about that? When we use our gifts – I mean, when we take the things that we have been given in our makeup and put them to work, it is so incredibly satisfying.</p> <p>I know myself, one of the things I really enjoy doing is playing the piano. In my younger years I practised hard all the scales and the arpeggios and sat the exams – practical and theory – but when I moved away from my parents’ home I went years – probably twenty years – without playing the piano much at all. Eventually my mother gave me the grand piano we had out in the music room and when it arrived in my home I started playing it again. These days it sits in my study where I pray, where I write my books, where I prepare these radio messages and a few times each day I will go and play for ten minutes or so. It’s just such a delight and a joy to be able to do that.</p> <p>Now, that’s just one small example, almost trivial. But as we have been chatting about these last few weeks, I know I’ve been emphasising the fact that our God-given gift is meant to be a blessing to other people. I’m blessed through your gifting; the things that you can do that I can’t, and hopefully, you are blessed through mine. That’s how it’s supposed to work and it does.</p> <p>But there is something so incredibly special about the enjoyment and the fulfilment that we get when we use our gift and we see it impact in other peoples’ lives. All my life I was looking for fulfilment in the things that I could get but I didn