As a paraplegic who was born with spina bifida, my relationship with my feet and legs is strange; most of the time I hate my feet. They have terrible circulation, get puffy sometimes, and once a wound on a toe lasted nearly six years.
Once someone unthinkingly said to me, “You should just get rid of your feet. You don’t use them anyway, right?”
The memory of that comment makes me cringe even now. Would it be right to cut off or remove a part of a body that is weaker or less functional? No!
In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul reminds the believers at Corinth that they are a community, meant to live, work, and serve interdependently. They are the body of Christ, joined to one another through and by Christ himself. Does the body need each part? Yes! Because God has given each part, each member, a place to belong.
We are the body of Christ, together. If we aren’t all together at the table, we miss out on relationship and experiencing how God moves and acts in all people.
This message is excerpted from faith reflection “Belonging to the body of Christ” by Lisa Heffernan in the February 6, 2019, Cafe online magazine. Today we commemorate Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries.
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