9/22/2025 Daily Devotion: Designed To Serve

1 Peter 4:8-11 NASB - Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaint. As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

We each have unique gifts/talents/strengths/abilities/passions/personalities/skills/desires that have been mixed together inside of us to create unique individuals GRACIOUSLY DESIGNED for an equally unique Purpose.

• Whoever you are, however God has designed you, whatever your Purpose in His Will is … each of us has been called to SERVE EACH OTHER.

• You have been DESIGNED BY GOD to serve other people in a unique-to-you way!

The beauty of God’s Grace is that He doesn’t just design us & send us off on our own … He also EMPOWERS us with His Strength to go out and execute the service we have been designed for & called to!

• God has uniquely designed each of us to uniquely show His Power in & through us to uniquely GLORIFY HIM.

• God DESIGNED you.

• God CREATED you.

• God PREPARES you.

• God CALLS you.

• God LEADS you.

• God EMPOWERS you.

So … what do you do with that TRUTH?

Get to know yourself.

• What strengths and talents has God given you?

• What skills has God given you the opportunity & desire to develop?

• What weaknesses of yours cause you to depend more on God?

• How has God designed your personality?

• How have you experienced God through your life experiences?

• Who has God used to influence & shape you?

Get to serving others.

• Who has God placed around you?

• Who is going through experiences you have already been through?

• Where can your gifts help others?

• Who has a need for a skill that you have?

• What struggles break your heart to witness?

God has created you for a Purpose. Know it. Do it.