1 Corinthians 12:15-19
15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
As individuals in the body of Christ, the church, we each have been created and gifted as new creations with the spiritual means to build up and minister to others. We do not all possess all gifts or callings, and this is by God’s wisdom to enable us to value and rely on each other. None is more valuable than another, for only Christ is the head, a position God alone holds in omniscient authority. Therefore, He gives varying gifts to each of us as He wills, not as we demand or expect. Only in His sovereign choices of who receives which enabling spiritual gifts can this body be healthy and build itself up as Ephesians 4 gives the pattern.
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