WOV #754, "Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ"
Devotion
God has given each of us specific talents. We’ve been equipped for His service. We’ve also been given a voice and the responsibility to speak His name to others.
We have also been gifted as the Church, Christ’s body on this earth. Each week we gather in worship and praise of Him. It’s a day set aside to hear what God has said to us and for us in Jesus. His Word provides us with a message to share. It’s a word of comfort, promise and hope. It’s a word He wants us to speak.
That’s what we’ve been asked to do. We hear God’s Word in worship, take it to heart and know that it speaks to us. Then we share it. We employ the talents and tongues we’ve been given to bear witness to the One who has claimed us as His own.
Prayer
God of goodness and grace, you have gifted your Church for the sake of witness. You have provided each of us with talents and tongues to use for you. Help us to use what we’ve been given that others might come to know what they too can receive. In Jesus’ name. Amen.