Spiritual Gifts

I'm currently listening to pastor Mark Driscoll's sermon series on spiritual gifts in 1 Cor., and I have to say, they're amazing. Then again, when is one of his sermons not? Anyway, this isn't a blog about him. It's just inspired by him.

While I was listening today, he made a really good point when he said 'Once you're a Christian, the Holy Spirit is in you.' Now, I was raised the pentacostal way which basically says that the only way you can tell if you're baptized with the Holy Spirit is when you start speaking in tongues and you get your prayer language and all that jazz. Not a bad way to be raised, but I just never thought that once you're a Christian and you believe Jesus is Lord, you're baptized in the Holy Spirit! It makes sense too because when God saves you, what convicts you of sin? The Holy Spirit. Even when you're a new Christian, the Holy Spirit convicts you of sin! And you don't even have to speak in tongues!!!! Maybe I'm just weird, but that's exciting to me.

I also never really looked at what my spiritual gift is either. Turns out, it's the gift of knowledge. If you don't know what that is, we are geeks for God. We love books! We have a lot of books! We love to learn and read, and soak up information as though we are sponges! We get excited when we get a new book! OR EVEN BETTER: AN OUT OF PRINT BOOK. Those are the best. As pastor Mark said: "I like big books, and I cannot lie!"

THIS is why I want to be a Librarian. THIS is why I LOVE to read. THIS is why I LOOOOVE books! I long for these things because it's what God has appointed me to do! I finally understand EXACTLY why I want this job.

Can you tell I'm excited by this? If you can't, you must not be reading this right, because this is exciting.
God's got an awesome plan and I'm only seeing the tip of it right now, and you know what? I'm completely happy with that fact.