Body of Christ

So sorry that I am just now updating my blog! The Lord told me to update it even after I came home... but i definitely haven't had time. But, here we go. Hopefully I can update more often about me continuing to process things from this summer and what the Lord is doing in my life.

One morning, my last week in Mozambique, my roommates and I walked to the beach and watched the sunrise and just sat and had time with the Lord. Oh how I wish I could do that right about... NOW! I miss my roommates, the beach, and watching the sunrise over the Indian ocean every morning! One this particular morning the Lord showed me something really wonderful.

Look at the first picture. You can't see the entire picture but it's of a man who is all alone(even before the sun came up) reeling in the net that has tons of fish in it. The next picture is when some friends of his came and helped him pull it in because he had so many fish to pull in he couldn't do it on his own.... he needed help.

Let's look at this from a spiritual standpoint.
"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."- Matthew 4:19
When we follow the Lord, He will make us fishers of men. We are called to go out and get them. But, we can't do it alone. We need each other. We need other believers to help us "reel" them in. We are all part of one body so we need to be unified and encouraging and helping "the other part of your body" bring in the lost(fish)!

"For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it."
—1 Corinthians 12:12-27

"And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near."
—Hebrews 10:24-25



Just something to think about....

much loveeeeeeee!
Emm