Read: 1 Corinthians12:4-14

Each person is a unique expression of God's loving design.

每一个人都是上帝爱的设计，独一无二。

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.  --1 Corinthians 12:4

恩赐原有分别，圣灵却是一位。-哥林多前书12章4节

 Fifteen-year-old Wilson Bentley was captivated by the intricate beauty of snowflakes. He looked with fascination through an old microscope his mother had given him and made hundreds of sketches of their remarkable designs, but they melted too quickly to adequately capture their detail. Several years later, in 1885, he had an idea. He attached a bellows camera to the microscope and, after much trial and error, took his first picture of a snowflake. During his lifetime Bentley would capture 5,000 snowflake images and each one was a unique design. He described them as “tiny miracles of beauty” and “ice flowers.”

威尔森·班特利（WilsonBentley）在15岁时，就对精巧细致的美丽雪花深深着迷。他用母亲给他的一部老旧显微镜看得十分入迷，并描绘了数百张精彩绝伦的冰晶结构。但是雪花融化得太快了，致使他无法及时捕捉到每个细节。直到1885年，他将折叠暗箱照相机装在显微镜上，历经多次的试验与失败后，才成功拍下首张雪花的照片。班特利终其一生捕捉了5000张雪花的影像，因为每一雪片都是独特的设计，所以他称这些雪花为「美丽的小奇迹」与「冰雪之花」。

No two snowflakes are alike, yet all come from the same source. So it is with followers of Christ. We all come from the same Creator and Redeemer, yet we are all different. In God’s glorious plan He has chosen to bring a variety of people together into a unified whole, and He has gifted us in various ways. Indescribing the diversity of gifts to believers, Paul writes: “There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work” (1 Cor.12:4-6).

没有两片雪花是相同的，但所有雪花都来自相同的源头。基督的跟随者也是如此，虽然我们都有同一位创造主与救赎主，但我们每个人都是不一样的。在上帝荣耀的计划里，祂将各式各样的人联结成为一体，并且给我们不同的恩赐。保罗在描述信徒们各有不同的恩赐时，他说：「恩赐原有分别，圣灵却是一位。职事也有分别，主却是一位。功用也有分别，上帝却是一位，在众人里面运行一切的事。」（哥林多前书12章4-6节）

Thank God for the unique contribution you can offer as you help and serve others.

感谢上帝赐给我们不同的恩赐，让我们每个人都可以用独特的方式来帮助与服事他人。

Prayer 祷告：

Dear Lord, thank You for the unique way that You have gifted me. Help me to use my gifts faithfully to serveYou and others.

亲爱的主，谢谢祢赐给我独特的恩赐，

帮助我忠心地运用这些恩赐来服事祢、服事人。

Read: 1 Corinthians12:4-14

“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines. Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.”

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