Refreshments

Ever noticed how simple it can be when at the last minute you’re asked or maybe decide on your own to bring refreshments somewhere. If your cupboard is stock-up you probably have a ready-to-eat or simple-to-prepare item right there. 

 

Then when you arrive you find that others have brought something too and so there is more-than-enough for everyone present. Everyone gets blessed, both those who brought something and those who didn’t.

For each of us who have accepted Jesus as Savior and have made Him the Lord of our lives, we have a portion of His Holy Spirit within our personal ‘spirit’ cupboard . . .  all the time. So everywhere we go we bring our portion of the Holy Spirit with us. It is meant to bless others.

1 Corinthians 12: 1-13 says it this way:

Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, (Christian sisters, too) I do not want you to be ignorant. You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray… Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit . . .

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.

The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

As you head out the door today, to wherever you are going, remember to bring some refreshments to share. It’s simple if the Holy Spirit has stocked your cupboard.

Gratefully HIS,

Jan