Day 03 Devotions

Well, here is part two of Devotions. Today's devotions are:

1 Corinthians 12:12-26

The body is a unit,
though it is made up of many parts;
and though all its parts are many,
they form one body.
So it is with Christ.
For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—
whether Jews or Greeks,
slave or free—
and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

Now the body is not made up of one part
but of many.
If the foot should say,
"Because I am not a hand,
I do not belong to the body,"
it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.
And if the ear should say,
"Because I am not an eye,
I do not belong to the body,"
it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.
If the whole body were an eye,
where would the sense of hearing be?
If the whole body were an ear,
where would the sense of smell be?
But in fact
God has arranged the parts in the body,
every one of them,
just as he wanted them to be.
If they were all one part,
where would the body be?
As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

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!"
On the contrary,
those parts of the body that seem to be weaker
are indispensable,
and the parts that we think are less honorable
we treat with special honor.
And the parts that are unpresentable
are treated with special modesty,
while our presentable parts need no special treatment.
But God has combined the members of the body
and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
so that there should be no division in the body,
but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
If one part suffers,
every part suffers with it;
if one part is honored,
every part rejoices with it.

This is a great illustration of what the church body should look like. It shows how different we all are and that God made us all that way. We have talked about this in our college group before. Sometimes we think, "OH, I wish I had that gift like that person", and we get jealous. But we all need to be reminded at times that we all have been given these gifts by God and He gave them to us for a specific purpose and reason.
It is a VERY good thing that not everyone in my group here in Latvia are like me, because there are so many different talents in our group.

(You don't want a group of Tim's building a High Ropes Course. Trust Me)