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.
Picture from Google
In other words, you belong in the body of Christ. After all, that is what you were made for!
No comments:
Post a Comment