X men

So I am a huge movie nerd! And a huge superhero nerd! So I just adore superhero movies!! Tonight I watched X-Men First Class. It was amazing I loved it. Learning how these heros became who they are. I just loved it. So that got me thinking, I am not a mutant, I am not a superhero but I am different. It's easy to let the culture around us talk us into the dream that because you are different you are better. That simply isn't so. Because you are different you have the ability to bring so much into the world. But that doesn't make you a superior human, or in some cases a better Christian. I am different because I have the spiritual gift of prophecy. It is like most gifts purely form God, and I struggle with using it. No I can't see the future, and no I can't read minds, but God has givin me insight into people and events along with other things (If you want to learn more about the modern day gift of prophecy read your Bible) so it's been hard on me lately because until now I assumed that all Christians saw everything I saw and understood what I did. That simply isn't so. So now I have to smush my ego back down to size because I can only do what I do because God is with me and using me. I can't do it on my own!! So since I was thinking about spiritual gifts I realized that everyone deals with this to some extent. We each have gifts that make us different, that make us special and wonderful. But if we by into the superhuman philosophy our heads will soon grow bigger and our reliance on God will soon shrink into a Sunday activity. I am so guilty of this, I am not the best musician, I can't draw to save my life, math is annoying and I can't for the life of me origanize or put things in an order! So to have something that I can do that not many people can, makes me excited and proud. That is my problem, I have gotten proud of what I can do, not amazed at what God can do through me. If I think I am better than people because they are different than me, then I have turned into Magnito (X-Men) If I try to pretend like I am not different and I think like others I have turned into a lemming and that's pitiful! So balence, balence is good. I haven't found balence yet but I am working on it :-) I will find it with Gods help!
So as I go to bed I cry out
'Lord help me, I thank you for what you have done in me, show me how to use it for you.'

That's what we all need to do cry out for Help! Because God will always answer!