Your Body

From him [Christ] the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (Ephesians 4:16)



Think about the miracle of the way your body works. The way your heart pumps blood through the body, how your brain fires and functions billions of neurons, the way your lungs provide oxygen. How does it all work? I studied enough biology, and anatomy and physiology to go in to the reasons. I can tell you about the chemical reactions, all the chain reactions, all the results that tie in to each other. That's the part that's easy to explain and work out. OK, not maybe easy, but it's the part that can be explained.



Why does it work though? It works because God wants it to. He created our bodies because He wants us to be able to go out and spread the word that is so important, the word about His life and love. It's amazing how he can take the time to do all this for us and we have nothing to offer but our promise that we'll keep working and trying to let others know about Him. We can't offer anything else to Him and yet He took all this time on us.



When you take the concept of a body and look at the bigger picture of the body of the church, it also helps put things in perspective for us. No matter what church you belong to, your church body has the mission to share itself with the outside world and bring people in the word of Christ. Our church body, our church's ministry, is to learn, to share, to teach, not only for our own selves, but to bring the whole world in to the light. It's an amazing experience to watch a person begin to know God's word and all that comes with it. I am still a learner, and I guess that experience still applies to me. I always am amazed how it feels to learn and experience something new, to feel the love poor through you and really make you understand what He has done for us. :)