PB Devotions
“You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body. It’s exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain—His Spirit—where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves—labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free—are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive.”
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 MSG
We understand how our own personal body works. My kids and I would laugh at this thought, “You don't know you need a spleen until it stops working.” I'm sure you can think of a few body parts that function without your thought. They are very important but you never think about it until it stops working efficiently. When we consider our own body we understand every body part is needed. No body part is more important than another. We feel the struggle when just one part of our body isn't doing what it was created to do. This is a picture of the body of Christ, the universal church and the local body. We struggle, as a body, when we don't do what we were created to do effectively. All parts of the body are important and needed. Never forget; we are essential to the mission. Every single one of us!
The Ordinary Days!!!
“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—”
Ephesians 4:11-15
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 MSG
We understand how our own personal body works. My kids and I would laugh at this thought, “You don't know you need a spleen until it stops working.” I'm sure you can think of a few body parts that function without your thought. They are very important but you never think about it until it stops working efficiently. When we consider our own body we understand every body part is needed. No body part is more important than another. We feel the struggle when just one part of our body isn't doing what it was created to do. This is a picture of the body of Christ, the universal church and the local body. We struggle, as a body, when we don't do what we were created to do effectively. All parts of the body are important and needed. Never forget; we are essential to the mission. Every single one of us!
The Ordinary Days!!!
“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—”
Ephesians 4:11-15
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