I'm reminded of how vital our roles are in the body of Christ when I remember my mom and her broken toe. When our 14 year old was a baby, Mom was keeping him for us one night. As she was looking back at him (adoring his cute little face), she ran right into the door facing, breaking her middle toe. The days, weeks and months that followed brought new worries to her body. What at first seemed like only the pain of a broken toe, transferred to a hurting back, muscle aches in the legs... and many other pains that I can't even remember. The point is... without the toe performing it's proper function, many other parts of her body were having to compensate for the "bum toe". Who would have ever thought the middle toe made such a difference!
It's no different in the body of Christ! We all have a function and we can't compare ourselves and our giftings to each other and think that our part doesn't matter.
I Corinthians 12:12 "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ." Verse 14: "For the body is not one member, but many."
He needs His body to operate fully... each part doing as He has assigned. When one part is not fully aligned, it cripples what He wants done. The body is not working to the full capacity and capability that He has planned.
There are no small parts in His Kingdom. They all matter to Him. He only wants our best... the firstfruits of all our efforts. Why do we give more attention and effort to our earthly/carnal jobs than we do to His work? He will always make up the difference of our inadequacies when we give Him our best. If we'll give each small task our greatest effort, He will multiply it!
Ecclesiastes 9:10 "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might..."
Whether He's called you to be a toe, a neck, an arm, a finger... let's do it with all our might!
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