Romans 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us,

Here’s what we can know based on what God's word has just shown us.

We have gifts that are different according to the grace that is given to us.

You will have a different gift based on the grace you were given.

Your gift, even if similar to mine, will be different because you are you, and I am me.

There is a divine favor that sets a path for you according to whom God says you are.

God gifts you by His Spirit according to what only He can know about you.

I wonder if you have had my experience while driving lately.  It seems many more people out there want to drive in my lane.  They are partly in their lane and mine, and there’s no grace for that!

When they start easing into my lane, I get a little nervous because there’s no room in my lane for both of us, even when we are going in the same direction.   

It’s not a peaceful easy feeling to see someone looking down at a phone and drifting into your lane.  I am not comforted when someone leaves the grace of their lane to travel in my lane of grace.  I am happiest in my lane of grace and when they stay in their lane of grace because then we can both safely travel.

Think of being given a lane that is all your own and going in the direction you need to travel as being your grace.  When you use it, it is a great gift.  But if you cross out of your lane into oncoming traffic or into the lane next to you where someone else is driving, you are no longer in the grace you were given, which is not good.

This is why knowing the grace you have been given is important.  You need to travel in the lane of grace the Holy Spirit has given you!

Don’t try to outpace the grace, be thankful for what you have been given. It is right and good and enough for you.  Settle into it and enjoy it.  When you are flowing in His grace, which is life according to the Spirit, even the difficult things have an air of excitement.

You know He will bring you through to victory in whatever it is you are up against, but more than that, when you are doing life according to grace, you live in overflow and have something to impart to others.  You become a conduit for blessing and impartation.

I encourage you today to know the gift that is yours according to the grace you were given and get into the flow of it.