“Hidden” Features

Shari was asking me about replacing some broken CD players the other day.

I shook my head and said, “Use your iPhone.”

She looked confused. Then she asked, “There’s an iPod in there?”

Yup.

The funny (or sad) thing is—she’s had an iPhone for a few years now, and there has always been an iPod in there.

For whatever reason, the iPod has been a “hidden” feature to her…

It was always there, but she didn’t realize it.

Her iPhone is more powerful than a really nice computer from 1999.

My wife has been carrying around untapped potential.

This makes me wonder…

As Christians, how many of us are walking around with hidden features and untapped potential?

Do we realize what we have? The Spirit of God lives in us!

“The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you.” (Romans 8.11 NLT)

Sometimes, we’re like my wife with her iPhone—unaware of what we’re carrying with us.

Paul wrote to the Corinthians about the “spiritual gifts” God’s Spirit empowers us with: “This is complex and often mis-understood, but I want you to be informed and knowledgeable.” (1 Corinthians 12.1 MSG)

I don’t want my spiritual life to be full of hidden features.

How about you?

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TO DO

—Read: 1 Corinthians 12, 13, and 14.
—Ask yourself: “Has God given me any of these features?”
—Pray: “God, I’m open and willing to be used by you.”