You = Spirit, Me = Spirit

Sometimes people worry that what they do for God isn't good enough. Not that that's a bad thing--it can be a good examination of one's self. What I am talking about is the idea that because someone is a missionary or a paid minister of some sort, that he or she is somehow more holy or more righteous than another Christian, that the person is higher on the totem pole of Christianity.

If you were not meant to be a missionary, don't feel bad about it. God gave you certain talents to use in specific ways that are just as important to Him as the work of a missionary on the other side of the globe.

Paul says, "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" (I Corinthians 12:4-6).

Whatever we do, we do it because God's Spirit prompted us to do it. (At least I hope that's why!) And we all are given the power to do what we do by the same God. Finally, we are all brothers and sisters in the same family.