The Body of Christ is a Gift

When was the last time you thought about your little toe? There are many parts of the body that don’t seem very important.  But God has fearfully and wonderfully made the machine that is the human body.  It is interrelated and interconnected in such a way that continues to baffle those who study it.

What is most remarkable is that there are no parts of the body that are useless.  Just because we don’t always appreciate and understand how parts work or why they are even there, doesn’t mean that they are not important. 

You are part of the body of Christ.  You have a divinely created place in the body that is your congregation.  When you don’t think you are important, or you feel that you don’t have a place, know that you are missed terribly, and the body is not complete without you!  When you don’t use the simple gifts which the lord has given you, the body is diminished.  It is weakened.  It can’t fully do what it has been given to do!

You have a place and a part to play.  Consider it.  Pray that the Lord would lead you to embrace and carry out this role.  Let the Holy Spirit use you in His ways for His work!

Prayer

Lord Jesus, the body of which You are the head is an amazing creation.  You have grafted us into this body by Baptism.  Lead us to see, embrace and relish in using the gifts we have been given simply and completely for the sake of the kingdom! Amen
 

Noreen E. Wenstone

Stewardship Chairperson