March 10-We are all a Part

Happy Saturday to you. Have you got big plans for the weekend? Make sure you include being in church with other believers to enjoy the fellowship and the sweet, sweet spirit of corporate worship. There is simply nothing to compare this side of heaven. 


This week my friend Maci sent me a YouTube link to a mock-commercial for a Rosetta Stone for Christian-ese. It was really funny because it was so true. We Christians tend to speak in our own vernacular to the point it is not understandable by people who haven’t been raised up in the church. And if we aren’t careful, we can become like the Pharisees and throw around even more of our special church-ie words. Paul warns us of thinking too highly of ourselves for this very reason. 


“Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭12:3-5‬ ‭NLT‬‬


I love how the apostle puts it all I to perspective here. Don’t think because you are one part you are more important than another. We are all a part. If you have been a Christian for 60 years, 6 years or 6 minutes, we are ALL a part. And each part serves a vital function. And not one part is more important than the other but rather, we all belong to each other. 


When I read and contemplate this, my mind immediately goes to 100 biology examples I could give you about how one very extremely tiny part of our body can either make us very healthy or sick or even kill us. Not even big things like your heart, but way little proteins or parts of cells you’ve probably never heard of that can start it all. And you don’t hear about them because almost all of the time they work right. They do their job. Just like most Christians. We don’t know who they are, they aren’t in the pulpit, they aren’t singing on stage, but they are doing what God called them to do. Wiping 2-yr old noses or helping paint a classroom or baking a pie for someone who has been sick or just shaking someone’s hand and saying “How are you today?” and really, really meaning it because that may be the person who really, really needs a friendly word this day. Doing what the Master has called us to do because, He has called us all. 


Father of Light, thank you for your calling and for letting us know that we are all a part. God help us to remember that we all belong to one another and to love each other unconditionally. We love you Yahweh and we lift you high and praise your name this day. We sing hallelujah to You, the Lamb has overcome. Amen and amen. 

Love you dear one,

Pam

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