In the past couple of weeks I’ve talked about our relationship with the Lord and with each other. Now I want us to look at how the Lord looks at us. He sees us as a body of which he is the head. As Christians you and I are part of his body.
I Corinthians 12: 12For 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. 14For the body is not one member, but many. 18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20But now are they many members, yet but one body. 27Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
It can be hard to comprehend our relationship with the Lord. It’s easy to down play our relationships with each other. We tend to take one another for granted. Together, with every believer worldwide, we are members of each other and the body of Christ. I’m not the head of this church. The Pope is not the head of the church. There is one head—Jesus Christ.
Our physical bodies have one head, but we have several members. We have two arms, two legs, ten fingers and ten toes. We have joints and tendons, ligaments and nerves. These all coordinate with the brain and perform their functions. When our head tells our body to do something, a series of actions take place as we obey it.
Remember the Lord is the head of us individually and collectively. To achieve what he wants of the body, each of us must do our part and be in our place. We coordinate and cooperate with each other to accomplish what the Lord wants done.
If the brain dies, the body dies. Jesus, our head, lives forevermore. Let nothing sever your from him. We need Jesus every minute of the day. He makes everything work. As our head it is our job to please him.
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