Not Everyone Can Be The Battleship!

God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. 

Use them well to serve one another.

1 Peter 4:10

 

Ever tried to make grill a steak without heat?  Every tried to take a roadtrip without fuel?  I remember, as a youngster, finding a bar of Baker's Chocolate in my Gramma's cupboard.  In my mind, I had found the gold at the end of the rainbow! I hid it in my pocket, ran out behind the house with my treasure, I admired the silver wrapping as I slowly pulled it back, and then I bit it.  Let me just say, chocolate without sugar tastes like asphalt smells!  That's when I discovered not all that is chocolate is tasty.

 

In grade school, when we played sports everyone wanted to be the quarterback or the pitcher or bat "clean up."  How well do you think it would have worked out to have 9 pitchers on the mound and no one in the field?  How well do you think we would have played with 11 quarterbacks and no linemen?

 

My point, in case you can't tell, is that every team has to work together in order to be effective!  Everyone must do THEIR part to make the team function properly.  Not everyone can be the star or be the stand-out.  Believe it or not, there's always someone who has to sweep up after every parade.  Believe it or not someone has to write the report.  Believe it or not, someone has to take the Chaplain when he shows up for a ridealong.  Believe it or not, someone has the job of washing the dishes at the restaurant.  There are always things that need to be done that no one wants to do, but they make the team/squad/office work efficiently.

 

Every person has been given gifts and talents.  It's up to us to USE them to help others.