FULLNESS OF LIFEنموونە

I’m not sure I got past the giggles about body parts when I learned this verse as a child, and so it wasn’t until recently that I gained an appreciation for the phrase each member belongs to all the others. 

I've heard teaching about the functioning body needing all the parts, and I sat there wondering if I was an armpit, hoping I would be the neck. Because while the head seemed important, it was the neck that turned the head. Needless to say, I was missing the point. 

God in His wisdom has created us with different gifts, and He has also created us as members of one body. We need each other. We need each other to be active participants, to work with each other, to share our gifts.

We need to know each other, intimately, as the body of Christ.

We need to know each other’s gifts, each other’s strengths, each other’s failings.

We belong to each other.

Let’s know each other. Let’s live in the fullness of life that God intends.

PRAYER

Father, teach us to work together as one. Teach us to belong to each other.