Sinclair Ferguson writes in a little book called Discovering God’s Will, under the heading
Consider your gifts,:This should provide a major help in discovering God’s will. The God who is the provider of the circumstances and opportunities of my life is also the Creator who has made and fashioned me and given me the abilities and gifts I possess. He will not normally contradict his providences by his gifts, rather he delights to match them together, and to watch his children’s joy when they begin to realize how perfectly he has done so. This principle governs the life and fellowship of the Church.Then Ferguson takes you to Romans 12:1–21: But let that principle also govern the entire life of the believer. Some of us have natural gifts which tend to be intellectual; others are gifted in communicating with people. Some gifts tend to be social in their application; others individual. Some are gifted by physical constitution, as well as by natural temperament, for manual labor. What we should all be learning as the children of God is that, since he has made us and loves us, since for the sake of the Lord Jesus he accepts us as we are in order to transform us into his image, we must learn to accept ourselves and the opportunities and the gifts God has given us and we must use them all for him. That is, in the providential opportunities for labour that unfold in our lives.” Ferguson is saying that in the normal course of things, there is a match between those providential opportunities and the gifts God has invested in us.1
George McDearmon
3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.