Day 78 · 1 Peter 4:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
Use what you have received
A gift is something received before it becomes something offered. The passage calls people stewards: caretakers of what has been entrusted to them. That shifts the question from “How impressive am I?” to “Who could this help?” Clear-minded prayer, love, and hospitality give that service its setting. Useful care may be quiet and ordinary; it does not need a stage to matter.
1 Peter 4:7–11
7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
8 Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
9 Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
10 As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
11 If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.