When we hurt the LORD cares. He has pity.
When the Lord saw her,
he was moved with pity for her and said to her,
"Do not weep."
Even when the situation seems unfixable the LORD has the power to fix it.
"Young man, I tell you, arise!"
Nothing is irreversibly lost. God's presence is among his people. Even when we feel completely without life and unable to move the LORD can give us life again.
Even when the parts of the body aren't functioning as one the LORD can bind us together again. When we forget how to play our specific roles and use the gifts we have been specially given the LORD can teach us by his Spirit. In order to respond to the command of Jesus to arise and be alive we must let him teach us how to function together as one body.
As a body is one though it has many parts,
and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body,
so also Christ.
We must have the humility not to insist on a part given to another. We must not have a false humility that refuses to act from the gifts we have in fact been given. That is actually pride. It won't do anything that can't be done perfectly by one's own strength. Humility is able to receive and use the gift because it trusts in the giver.
Are all Apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers?
Do all work mighty deeds? Do all have gifts of healing?
Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?
Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts.
May the LORD make us alive in one body by his Spirit animating us according to his good pleasure. Then we will experience the fullness of life we can know when we are together one flock under the one shepherd who alone is good.
Know that the LORD is God;
he made us, his we are;
his people, the flock he tends.
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