Which Part of the Body are You?

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Imagine the heart comparing itself with the brain and competing with it by trying to carry out the function of thinking instead of pumping blood to keep the body alive?
Weird, isn't it? I thought so too. Now try to relate it with the present day Body of Christ global. I did that myself and realized that comparison and competition is one of the major issues we face today. 

Before I go on, let me clarify that the Body of Christ I'm writing about is every individual Christian believer who gets to meet with other individual Christian believers anywhere they are in the world. 

So, this post is addressing each of us — the individual believer reading it because it's who we are that we carry everywhere we go — our mindsets, personality, spiritual gifts, talents, strengths, weaknesses and all. Especially in these internet-driven days of being remotely mobile. 

It's for us to reflect on how our individual actions affect the entire Body of Christ. I'll be focusing on self discovery in relation to knowing what functions we carry out in the collective Body of Christ and how to maximise it in whatever gathering we find ourselves in the Body.

Dear Christian, do you know that Unity of the Body of Christ is one of the burdens that God is giving to us — His Children in these last days? 

Some few years ago, I was reading through the book of John and Jesus Christ's heartfelt prayers for Agape and Unity amongst His disciples and future disciples in Chapter 17 leaped out to me. It hit me that Oneness of the Body is one of the major goals of Christianity. I could literally feel the burden in Jesus Christ's heart as He prayed.

Just recently, that realisation of the importance of Oneness struck me once more while going through the book of 1st Corinthians again. 

So, one thing I try to do when studying scriptures is to imagine the events and activities surrounding the writing in my mind and relate them to present day happenings. And trust me when I say the Bible never gets old because history keeps repeating itself, only in a more refined manner.

1st Corinthians 12, like other related scriptures, was certainly written to address disunity... Watch out for Part 2

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