For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
One of the great aspects of the Body of Christ is how we, as believers, fit together with each other. God has equipped us with different gifts, abilities and personalities to fit perfectly together. It works so, so well. Until it doesn’t. We have, as the above verse mentions, many members. We don’t have the same function. We are individually shaped to fit into the Body. We are to be members one of another. However, what makes all that so great is also our shadowy side. We don’t always fit, or always function, or always work well together, because we are so different in function. The very shape we are as individuals tends to not always fit the other member. Think of a group of puzzle pieces. They are all designed to fit together. However, when one piece is turned the wrong way it won’t connect to the other. Some of the pieces don’t fit together unless they have another piece in between them. This is how the Body of Christ works. However, we often want to do a function we are not equipped to do. Yet, we still insist we are to do some particular part in the Body. I like what this commentator said about this aspect of the Body of Christ:
“One good thing we get from the secular world is psychological testing. There are profiles designed to help us see if we have the necessary equipment to enter into a certain vocation. I have seen in the course of seminary teaching many students with stars in their eyes about going into the ministry, but they lack the necessary gifts for the service of God in this particular vocation. Someone perhaps has flattered them or they have flattered themselves; along the way the evaluation was not a sober one. When that happens, people are doomed to failure, frustration, disappointment, discouragement, and some-times lifelong depression. Each year in the United States sixteen thousand clergy demit the ministry, some for moral reasons but most because they deem their job to be a bad fit for their abilities. That is a dreadful experience for people, and it starts because they were intoxicated rather than sober in their self-esteem.”
Excerpt From
Romans
R. C. Sproul
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We would do wise to know where we fit and allow the grace of God to humble us and show us how we fit into the Body. We are supposed to fit. God shaped us just the way He wanted. Don’t try to fit into a shape you are not. That only disrupts the Body.
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