~We All Have a Part~

The verses I am going to include in this post have been on my mind and heart for awhile now. I have wrestled with writing it because I don't feel like I am putting into words how I feel about this in my heart. Please don't get me wrong, there are certain things that are just plain wrong or right. I am in no way trying to make it seem like sin is okay. As a Christian, we are all going toward the same goal of making heaven our home and doing our best to be more like Jesus. We are followers of Christ, but we all have our own distinct part. We are not all the same. We all have different likes and dislikes. We all have our own way of doing things. We are not all preachers, teachers, or singers and if we are preachers, teachers or singers (or anything else for that matter) none of us have the exact same way of doing things. No matter your personality or interest, we all have a part and we are ALL needed. God has placed an anointing in you to touch the life of others. And he has equipped you with exactly what you need to make a difference. We are members fitly joined together.

Since the Word of God says exactly what it means and means exactly what it says, here are the verses that have been on my heart:

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1 Corinthians 12:12-27

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
For the body is not one member, but many.
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
And if they were all one member, where were the body?
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

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I had to look up the word schism. So, for those of you like me, schism is a separation or division.

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Romans 12:1-5

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.