Gifts Of Grace In Life
GIFTS OF GRACE IN LIFE
The gifts mentioned in Romans 12 are the gifts of grace in life. Romans 12:3 says, "For I say through the grace given to me to everyone among you, not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to be soberminded, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith." In this verse we come to a very practi cal point. Every one of us thinks highly of him self. Outwardly you may appear to be humble, but inwardly you think quite highly of yourself. This is a problem to the church life. If we are to have the proper church life, the first thing that must be torn down is the high opinion that we have of ourselves. We need "to think so as to be sober-minded." If you think highly of yourself, your mind is not sober or normal. It means that you have an abnormal element in your mind. Your mind needs to be adjusted and renewed, and all the negative elements in it need to be swallowed up by the life of Christ. Then your mind will be renewed and sobered.
Furthermore, we need to think "as God has allotted to each a measure of faith." It is not