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Which body part are you?


 Romans 12:3 For I say through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we being many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

As believers in Christ Jesus, we are all members of the body of Jesus Christ, some people are the hands, some are the eyes, some are the legs, some the mouth, some the ears, some the nose etc. the hands cannot function alone in the body, it needs the remaining body parts for it to function, so imagine if the hands thinks of itself more highly than it should. Thoughts like ‘I’m better than the eyes’, or ‘I’m more important than the nose' when the truth is that the hand is not better than any other part of the body and it needs the eyes, the legs, the mouth, and the remaining body parts to function adequately because the hands are useless without the remaining parts of the body. The hands should give honor to the eyes and the rest of the body parts always, recognising their importance to the body of Christ, also recognising that without the rest of the body parts and the body, it is useless, and vice versa.

All the body parts have different functions so the eyes should focus on being very good eyes, the nose should focus on being a very good nose, and the hands should focus on being very good hands. This is the way we should live our lives, knowing that we are made for God’s purpose and that we are not living for ourselves. We should be focused on our purpose here on earth, and be honest with ourselves about our strengths and our shortcomings, if the nose is trying to be the ears it would become so useless to the body. Each of us has been given spiritual gifts that should be used to the glory of God, they should be used to help the body of Christ and to help and encourage others too. Can you imagine the eyes refusing to see properly? Or the mouth refusing to eat food that will nourish the body? 2 Cor 5:15 says it all. So that those who live should no longer live self-absorbed lives but lives that are poured out for him- the one who died for us and now lives again.

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