Devotionals December 6

Magnify Your Maker

“If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified.” I Peter 4:11 NKJV

God endows us with gifts so we can make him known. Period. God endues the Olympian with speed, the salesman with savvy, the surgeon with skill. Why? For gold medals, closed sales, or healed bodies? Only partially.

The big answer is to make a big to-do out of God. Brandish him. Herald him. “God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well…Then God will be given glory” (I Pet. 4:10-11 NLT).

Love so that “he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes!” (I Pet. 4:11 MSG). Exhibit God with your uniqueness. When you magnify your Maker with your strengths, when your contribution enriches God’s reputation, your days grow suddenly sweet.

1 of 365 devotionals in Grace for the Moment, Volume II, by Max Lucado