"COME TOGETHER"

 

This is the 170^th letter:

 

Text for the day: 1 Corinthians 12:21

 (New International Version)

 

“The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!"

 

Our Series: “HE GAVE GIFTS TO HELP US” Part 4

 

Our Theme for the day: “COME TOGETHER”

 

Our Devotional

 

One day as I was sitting down and quietly reading by myself, three men sit not to far from me. As we shared our pleasantries, I quickly went back to my reading. Before long, I could not believe what I was hearing. One person said to the other, our gifts are more superior then those of our peers. Then they started to pull a speakers style of speaking apart. This was too much for me, so I got to thinking and God led me to look at the people in Paul’s day that had the same problem with pride. When you look at 1 Corinthians 12:21, Paul is seen pulling out the rod of rebuke to those who prided themselves in the notion that they were highly gifted. Infect they had shown by conceit, that the lesser gifts among them could be dispensed with and God could work out His plan through just them. On the other hand, “Paul had to put them in their place and tell them that this was wrong and not of God.”

 

Since the economic down fall in the world, every week on the news all you hear about is some company has cut back on staff or closed. What you don’t hear is what happened to the owners or C.E.O of these businesses. Why is it always that the small man comes out on the short end of the stick? Paul addressing this confused point at the church at Corinth tells them that there is mutual dependence of all the gifts in the body, (even department) of the Church and one another. Just as important that every department or person is needed for proper functioning of the whole, God has called His children. The most gifted church members, or person on your jobs are as much dependent on the less favored as the latter are on the former. This being the case, there is no place at all for pride who think they are better then others or discontent who feel they are over looked by those who feel they are much better. Today we need to come to the place where God is seen working through the gifts of the ordinary and the extraordinary. We are not in great need of more gifts in the body of Christ, but in great need of seeing the gifts, big and small, those who are gifted beyond measure and those who are not so gifted beyond measure as they really are and as God views them.

 

Let us stop trying to close down the work of God like many businesses are closing today because there is no longer a quick profit. This is God’s work, and He has been working as the boss with His son Jesus the Christ as C.E.O and the Holy Spirit as overseer for over five thousand years. But let us stick to the vision delivered to us through the patriarchs and prophets. That each part of the body may be encouraged to perform its own peculiar duty, and that the failure of one part will affect the efficiency of all the others. Finally, instead of promoting pride and given sympathy to discontent.

 

We need to love one another. Let those who are more generously gifted by God, cherish their less favored brethren or colleagues on the job. Let those who have been blessed to a higher measure in life reach back and help those who haven’t, in the same area or gift. If the kingdom of grace is to be established and prosper, then we must learn how to appreciate what others are doing in the body of Christ. Let us always remember that love and unity seen among those who call themselves Christians is God’s stamp of approval of informing the world that Jesus was sent by the father into the world to save. John 17:21 Remember as members of the body of Christ we are called to protect the weaker, injured members of the body because we are closely knitted together in Christ. May God help us in this area of life, for we are our brother’s keeper.

 

These letters are written by Elder Kevin Santucci

 

 

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Our Prayer for today:

Father, I ask that you will protect your weak one from

the finger and poisonous darts of Satan today.

Help your church not to be disgraced by the defection

of the weaker members in service but helped by the stronger,

so your name may be praised, in Jesus name Amen.

 

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