Reach Out and Touch

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.
1 Corinthians 12:7

Recommended Reading Ephesians 4:11-16

Around
1960, a Dartmouth University biology professor named Herb Bormann
studied the roots of trees in a white pine forest. He injected roots
with dyes, herbicides, and radioactive tracers and discovered that the
trees passed these substances among themselves via a vast network of
underground root grafts and unions. "Many trees are linked into organic
unions" and are subject to the "influence of their grafted companions,"
he wrote.

That's not a bad
illustration of spiritual gifts in the body of Christ. Individual
Christians are given gifts, the benefits and blessings of which they
share with other members of the body. Every member, then, benefits from
the gift(s) of every other member. Paul's metaphor of the human body
reveals the same effect: Just as organs are bound together organically
in the body, so believers are "joined and knit together by what every joint supplies"
(Ephesians 4:16). When every member contributes, the whole church is
made stronger. And it is made weaker with each member whose gift
remains unused.

If your spiritual gift is lying dormant, reach out and touch others. It's the only way to pass to others what God has given you.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.
C. S. Lewis

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