Possessing the Gifts 9/17 Friday Faith

But is there not a vast and appalling unconcern about possessing the gifts? Ask a score of saints chosen at random from almost any assembly, "Have you any of the gifts of the Spirit?" and the answer will be, "No," and given in a tone and with a manner that conveys the thought that the saint is not surprised at not having the gifts, that he doesn't expect to have any of them, and does not expect to seek for them. Isn't this terrible when the living Word exhorts us specifically to "covet earnestly the best gifts"? So in order that the gift might be everything and in evidence, we have to see that we cease to live excepting for His glory. He works with us, we work with Him, cooperative, working together. This is divine. Surely this is God's plan. -- Smith Wigglesworth