God uses all parts to complete us and enable us to work for Him...Today's Scripture:
What we have is ONE BODY WITH MANY PARTS, EACH ITS PROPER SIZE AND IN ITS PROPER PLACE, NO PART IS IMPORTANT ON ITS OWN.
1 Corinthians 12:20
Your body is the perfect picture of how God designed community to work. Every part is interdependent and is vital to the health and strength of the other parts. If your lungs took the day off, your brain would cease to function. If your muscles went on strike, your feet wouldn't be able to get you out of bed and off to work or school.
Paul's picture of the cooperative human body illustrates how every individual is vital to the health of God's church as a whole. It also demonstrates how every part is significant. One part isn't more important than another. You should not regard the person who preaches on Sunday morning like myself as more important than the one who cleans the building or turns on the heat or air before the service. Each individual is necessary.
Every gift God gives has a purpose and a place to help fulfill his perfect plan and to allow us to experience "Spiritual Growth".
Selah people' and friends we often encounter two pitfalls when we evaluate our significance by com pairing our gifts with others:
1. We may believe our gifts our too small or too big, or
2. We may feel that what we do really doesn't matter or that everything would fall apart with them.
Paul's words in 1 Corinthians guide you and I toward true measure of significance. Though we are of eternal significance to God, our significance on this earth comes solely from what we are a part of - God's body here on earth. Friends please know the we are the body of Christ. You and I may be the only Jesus some people will ever meet and the only church some of closest friends, family and coworkers will ever experience in their life.
"Understanding your significance, and the significance of others, will help you keep a humble, realistic view of yourself. It will also enable you to work more harmoniously in community with others. Join me in being the true body of Christ!"
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