"Bring God Glory in Everything You Do" - 1 Peter 4:8-11

"8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Be hospitable to one another without complaint. 10 As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen." - 1 Peter 4:8-11 NASB

     By beginning with "above all," Peter is placing the command that follows at peek priority.  He is saying that actively loving one another is more important than most anything else.  And by saying that "love covers a multitude of sins" He is saying that love is more powerful than sin.  Sin should be forgiven and forgotten, overcome by the love we show despite being harried by the sins of others.
     "Be hospitable to one another without complaint."  We are to open our homes to others, care for others, and do what we can to make other's lives easier.  In addition to that, we are to have a good attitude about it even when we sacrifice and are hospitable to others and they are thankless, or rude to us.  We are to allow ourselves to be taken advantage of for the sake of the cross.  I am not very good at this.  I may be good at the first step, the self sacrifice, but if it goes unrecognized, or flat out abused, I begin to get angry and resentful.  Lord, change my heart.
     Then, Peter goes on to talk about how each of us in the Lord's service have been granted a special gift.  God has a purpose for each one of us and He has gifted us all in different and unique ways.  As we begin to identify those gifts, we are able to use them to bring glory to God.  Peter emphasis an attitude of doing everything to the glory of God, so even if you don't know what your gift is, if you are doing everything as if unto God, than you can bring God glory in anything you do!