Find Your Fit

What does it mean to truly trade our own vision for God's mission? That question sits at the heart of missionary Ben Ward's deeply personal and challenging exploration of Ephesians 4:7-16. We are invited to see ourselves not merely as part of a crowd, but as individuals whom the King of Kings personally knows and specifically gifts. The passage reminds us that grace has been given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift, and that is not a small or casual thing. The risen Christ, having ascended in victory and led captivity captive, distributes gifts among his people, not to hoard the spoils of his victory but to pour them out generously. This reframes how we understand our own role in the life of the church. We are not passive observers of God's work in the world. We are equipped, gifted, and called to function as living parts of a body that builds itself up in love. The sobering question this raises for each of us is whether we are actually walking in the gifts we have been given, or whether we are sitting quietly on the sidelines, waiting for someone else to do what God has already prepared us to do.