Saturday, June 22, 2013

You Belong.

12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptised by[c] one Spirit so as to form one body – whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free – and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 And so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I don’t need you!’ And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you!’ 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honourable we treat with special honour. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honour to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honoured, every part rejoices with it.
-1 Corinthians 12: 12-26

As a human being, God designed you purposely, He carefully crafted you with specific abilities, talents, passions, personality, and especially as a child of God, He has a specific place(s), specific roles that He has fashioned you specially to do. You are a crucial puzzle piece in God’s big picture and it won’t look the same without you. You are a specific body part in the body of Christ, and without you, we would be lacking an ability that is necessary to our function. You are very important in God’s eyes, you've been fashioned for a specific purpose, intentionally. Let’s look at it this way, God knew that there would be a problem in the world and as a solution to that/those problem(s), He made you. He endowed you with resources from Heaven, abilities from Him, strength, way of seeing things, everything. You are a special package sent from Heaven to us on Earth! To the body of Christ, we need you! Because you are the only you, there is a lock into which you are the only key that can fit. 

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In other words, you belong in the body of Christ. After all, that is what you were made for!



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