Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Cyprus and Algonne, Timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut Timber and Lebanon.

Are these verses interesting and encouraging when we think about the diversity of skills that God

has entrusted to different people? Like I look around in the church and in the world, even at just

God's common grace and I see so many different people with so many different gifts and skills that I

don't have. Like I have so many limitations and so many things that I can't do and I look around

and I see others who are really good at those things. I praise God for his creativity and dispensing

gifts and skills and the different people and different ways all ultimately for the good of others

and for the glory of his name in his church in the world. And so I just want to lead us based on

Second Chronicles chapter 2 to pause and to praise God specifically for gifts and skills that he

is given to others that we don't have. We have this tendency to constantly compare ourselves with

others and to think that we are less than because we don't have this or that that someone else has

instead of pausing to thank God for the unique gifts and skills he's given to others.

For the way that he's glorified in that and to not overlook the unique gifts and skills he's

given to us and to thank him for those. So God we praise you as we look at people around us who

have skills and gifts that are different from ours and even as we look around us and see people

have skills and gifts that are in some senses better than ours and that are in many senses better

than ours. I think about my desire as a little kid to play professional baseball God and

and the gifts and skills you did not give me to be able to throw a 100 mile an hour fastball or

to hit 100 mile an hour fastball but I watch people with that gift and that skill that only comes

from you oh God and I praise you for your grace and the display of your glory and that gift and

God even as I pray that that sounds so small because there are so many other gifts and skills that

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