Last week I highlighted the faith of the four men in Mark chapter 2 (and Luke 5:17-26). This week I wanted to point out a passage in Romans chapter 12 that is also instructive, and relevant to women who seek to honor God and serve Him with their gifts. (I assume that, though the passage refers to the male gender, it applies equally to the female, and recommend that it be read that way):
I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
For through the grace given to me I say to every man among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. And since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let each exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching; or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Let love be without hypocrisy...
(emphases added)
The whole passage is one of my favorites.
