Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

• Explore your fears and what’s behind them.
• Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.
• List out all that you are grateful for.
• Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

• Here are some tools to help you with the devotional journal:
  • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
  • A Guide to Self-Reflection
  • A Chart to help articulate feelings

Romans 12 Commentary

Bible Text: Romans 12:4-8 (ESV)

⁴ For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, ⁵ so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ⁶ Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; ⁷ if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; ⁸ the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Reflection Questions

Romans 12:4-8

• Reflect on the phrases “do not all have the same function,” “individually members one of another,” and “having gifts that differ.”  Have I accepted these truths, or is there some degree of resistance to the way these truths work out in my life?
• Among the gifts listed, which gift do I possess?  Have I been a good steward of these gifts?
• What is the significance that those who have the gift of doing “acts of mercy” are urged to do it with cheerfulness?

[1] Life Application Study Bible, NIV Edition. (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. & Zondervan, 1984). p.2050.

Prayer