Do you feel like you just don't know enough, or have the right words to get your point across?
These thoughts came to me recently as I was reading through Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. In Chapter 12 he gives his beautiful description of what it means to be part of Christ's body and how every single one of us completes his body.
He says that "the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are all the more necessary."
When we reflect on this chapter, we can see that "God so constructed the body" so that there wouldn't be any division, and that we each should have concern for each other.
"If [one] part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy."
And since we are all Christ's body (individually parts of it), Paul says, that means we each have different roles to fill.
So to my first point, never dismiss yourself as being unable to contribute to the building up of the kingdom, but strive to fulfill God's plans for you. For many of us, it might look like we cannot do very much, but we have to remember that in the scope of things, we are absolutely "necessary."
Janet Cassidy
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Oh, yeah! Right! Feeling negligible, useless - that's relatable. In terms of being part of the body of Christ, sometimes I feel like I might be a spleen: and I'm not sure why I picked that organ.
ReplyDeleteAnyway: yes! And right!