Week 6 Day 2- God Gives Me Gifts to Use!
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June 30, 2026
Today at Son Seekers:
Your child learned that God gives each person gifts that can be used to serve others with love. We talked about how gifts are not only obvious talents like sports, music, art, or being smart. Gifts can also look like helping, listening, encouraging, including others, noticing someone who feels sad, leading kindly, or using words well.
Today’s Simple Truth:
God gives me gifts so I can serve others with love.
Bible Verse We Talked About:
1 Peter 4:10 (New International Reader’s Version)
God’s gifts of grace come in many forms. Each of you has received a gift in order to serve others.
In Simple Words:
The Bible teaches that God gives people different gifts, strengths, and abilities. Those gifts are not meant only for attention, showing off, or comparing ourselves to others. They are meant to be used with love.
Your child heard that a gift becomes meaningful when it helps someone else. A child can use creativity to encourage someone, leadership to include others, humor to bring joy instead of embarrassment, or kindness to help someone feel welcome.
We also talked about how some gifts are quiet. Noticing, listening, helping, staying calm, asking good questions, and encouraging others may not always get attention, but they matter deeply.
Ask Your Child:
What are some gifts or strengths God can give people?
What is the difference between using a gift to show off and using a gift to serve?
What is one gift, strength, or helpful quality you could use to help someone this week?
Try This Together:
As a family, name one gift or strength you see in each person. Try to name gifts that are not only talents.
Examples:
“You are good at noticing when someone needs help.”
“You bring joy into the room.”
“You are creative.”
“You are a good helper.”
“You ask thoughtful questions.”
“You are brave when things are hard.”
Then ask: “How could you use that gift to help someone?”
Simple Prayer Option:
If praying out loud is new for your family, you can simply read this together:
“God, thank You for the gifts You give us. Help us notice what You have placed in us. Teach us not to compare, hide, or show off, but to use our gifts to serve others with love. Amen.”
If You Are New to This:
You do not have to know your child’s “big purpose” or identify every gift perfectly. Start simple. Notice something good in your child and say it out loud. Children often need help seeing the quiet strengths God has placed in them.
Parent Encouragement:
Children often compare their gifts. Some feel proud of obvious strengths, while others may feel like they do not have much to offer. Today’s truth helps children see that everyone has something they can use for good. A gift does not have to be impressive to matter. When it is used with love, it can become a way to care for others.
Adult Devotion:
What God Has Placed in Your Hands
Scripture: 1 Peter 4:10 NIV
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace.
Devotional Reading:
1 Peter 4:10 gives a simple but challenging picture of gifts. It says that each person should use whatever gift they have received to serve others.
That means gifts are not just things we possess. They are things entrusted to us.
In everyday life, it is easy to think of gifts through the lens of comparison. Who is more talented? Who is more creative? Who is better with people? Who is more confident? Who gets noticed? Who seems to have something I do not?
Comparison can make us do strange things with our gifts. Sometimes we show them off because we want to feel important. Sometimes we hide them because we are afraid of being judged, expected to perform, or found lacking. Sometimes we dismiss them because they feel ordinary to us.
But Scripture gives us a better question than, “How do I compare?”
It asks, “How can I serve?”
That shift matters.
A gift does not have to be dramatic to be meaningful. Encouragement can be a gift. Patience can be a gift. Hospitality can be a gift. The ability to notice what others miss can be a gift. Steadiness in stressful moments can be a gift. Creativity, humor, wisdom, organization, compassion, and persistence can all become ways God’s grace moves through ordinary people.
The point is not to build attention around ourselves. The point is to let what God has given us become useful in love.
This is important for children, but it is just as important for adults. Many adults overlook what God has placed in them because it feels normal. You may not think of your patience, your ability to listen, your practical help, your steady presence, your encouragement, or your wisdom as a gift. But someone else may experience God’s care through that very thing.
Today, consider what God has placed in your hands. You do not need someone else’s gift for your life to matter. You do not need to show off, and you do not need to hide. You can simply ask, “How can I use what God has given me to love the people in front of me?”
Adult Reflection Questions:
What gift, strength, or quality in my life do I tend to overlook because it feels ordinary?
Where am I tempted to compare my gifts with someone else’s?
How could I use one gift or strength this week to serve someone with love?
Simple Prayer:
“God, thank You for the gifts You have placed in my life. Help me stop comparing, hiding, or using my gifts for attention. Show me how to use what You have given me to serve others with love. Amen.”
Next Steps:
Choose one gift or strength you often overlook. Use it intentionally today to encourage, help, include, listen to, or serve someone else.
