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Our Daily Bread: Serving TogetherУзорак
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Many Gifts, One Purpose
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. -1 Corinthians 12:4
Corn, also called maize, is the staple food in my home country of Mexico. There are so many different types. You can find yellow, brown, red, and black cobs, even ones with a wonderful spotted pattern.
But people in the cities usually won’t eat the spotted cobs. Restaurateur and researcher, Amado Ramírez, explains that they believe uniformity is a synonym for quality. Yet the spotted cobs taste good, and they make excellent tortillas.
The church of Jesus Christ is much more similar to a spotted ear of corn than a cob of just one color.
The apostle Paul used the imagery of a body to describe the church because even though we are all one body, and we have the same God, each of us has been given a different gift. As Paul said, “There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work” (1 Corinthians 12:5–6).
Our diversity in the ways we help each other shows God’s generosity and creativity.
As we embrace our diversity and gifting by the Holy Spirit, may we also make every effort to keep our unity in faith and purpose? Yes, we have different abilities and backgrounds. We speak different languages and come from different countries.
But we have the same wonderful God, the Creator who delights in so much variety.
Keila Ochoa
Why do you think it’s important to help each other and build one another up? How can you build unity in the diversity between communities this week?
Father, may we make every effort to be one, respecting, building up, and valuing each other and our various gifts and talents. Amen.
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Although we may speak different languages, we all serve the same God. Learn about loving Christ and loving others with these 10 spiritual meditations from Our Daily Bread’s Hispanic writers.
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