This means that the Holy Spirit is the one who decides who gets what. We don’t. But we are told to “earnestly desire” spiritual gifts. Isn’t it reasonable to think that if we are responsible for desiring spiritual gifts and the Spirit is responsible for distributing them, we should ask that he fulfill our desire by granting us the gifts we want to see manifest in our lives? I would suggest that the “desire” we feel for certain gifts is likely itself the fruit of the Spirit’s work in our hearts. He desires (or wills) to grant us a gift (or gifts), which awakens in us a desire for the very thing
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Now this is interesting. Storms points to our very desiring of a spiritual gift to be "...likelt itself the fruit of the Spirit's work in our hearts."
So the Spirit gives us the desire for spiritual gifts in general, and sometimes for specific ones, so that He can answer and give us what He put in us to desire.
So does that mean that if we DON'T desire the spiritual gifts, or certain ones, that it's because God hasn't given us the desire for them yet? What if we never feel a desire to ask God for the spiritual gifts? Or what if we never ask God for a particular gift because we don't have the desire for it? Is this an issue of disobedience? Or, since it is the Spirit's decision to give or not give us the desire to desire spiritual gifts, it doesn't matter? Either we will desire it because He wills so, or we won't because He doesn't?
