The Body of Christ

 I am marveling 

about the Body of Christ

Have you ever struggled a bit with knowing just where you fit in the body of Christ? Of maybe you have compared yourself to another member of the body and felt inferior or less needed or used?

God created the body as we know, with a variety of functions, to work for the good of the whole.

To make the body of Christ a testimony of love to the nations. To the neighborhoods. To the workplaces, the schools, the marketplace.

There are those that are the brain.....great thinkers, organizers and analysts

There are the hearts...full of caring and compassion, true givers

The ciculatory system....keeps things moving, gets things going, movers and shakers

The hands.....the makers and the distibutors, the creative, practical ones

The legs and feet....those that go, that are sent, that share the Gospel and the love of Christ

The connective system......keeps us united and working together

The kidneys.....proclaiming purity and accountability

The arms and shoulders......those with a gift for lifting the burdens of others

What a blessing when we all work together to accomplish those tasks the Lord would have us to do.

Do not compare or feel challenged or intimidated. Realize that when part of the body excels, the entire body flourishes. We are in this together. We are all part of the whole. Working together to glorify our Maker!

Be the best brain or heart or hand or piece of connective tissue that you can be.

How do we know what part we should play? That is a good question. Some know it instinctively. For others it is harder to discern.

Let me share a quote from my Bible Study this week by Beth Moore. She asked "What is it that you feel like doing when you are filled with divine affection?" I love that. Do you want to teach it? Sing it? Share it? Write it? Go exercise it? What you find yourself first doing with this great sense of love and awe is likely the way that God wired you, and there-in you can find your God given gift. Seek it with prayer. Be open to mentoring. Be willing. 

May we encourage each other.

May we give ourselves grace.

May we realize that there are seasons in life when we may exercise one part of the functioning and other seasons when a different role kicks in

The important thing is that we are always available to be used as our God deems needed.

Let's keep the main thing the main thing. And that, my friend, is our Jesus. For whom "the whole body works together" for His glory!

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office,

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Rom. 12:4-5