I want you to ask yourself this question. “Am I
fulfilling God’s role for me in my church?”
For centuries doctors have known that the human body
contains a set of tonsils, yet only in recent years have they establish exactly
what it is they do? We have to be
certain that God put them in our bodies on purpose, but it took an enormous
amount of research to discover His purpose for them. I know several people who have had their
tonsils removed, and there is little to no set back as a result. DON’T BE A CHURCH TONSIL! One, who is not really noticed as a member, that
can be easily removed, and in no time it would be as if he were never part of
the body at all!
God has never called anyone to simply exist. We all have a specific job to do for Christ,
and if we fail to fulfill that task, we cause the whole body to suffer as a
result. God gives us different abilities
for a reason; He has designed the body with only two eyes and two hands,
indicating to us that not everyone can have those roles to play. Could you imagine if your internal organs
were to bicker and quarrel over what function they were to fulfill, and if they
did not get their way they would just leave!!
Your body would be in serious trouble if that were to occur, yet we have
trouble seeing how our behavior would cause the same outcome in the body of
Christ.
Please allow me to encourage you to speak with your
pastor or church leader, and find the right function for you to be involved
with at your church. There can never be
too many servants in the church!! We are
all members of this body once we are saved, but the role we play in the body
can and will be developed over time. If
you are right now struggling with the task you have been given, please just
keep doing your part. God will promote
you in due time. If you would fit the
description of a church tonsil, please remedy that by getting busy as soon as
possible!
1Co 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.
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1Co 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
1Co 12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
1Co 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
1Co 12:19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
1Co 12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
1Co 12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1Co 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
1Co 12:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
1Co 12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
1Co 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
1Co 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
1Co 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
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