About six months ago I asked some people at my church if we could gather a group to help a single mother of two move. It was something that she truly needed. A blessing that I definitely felt she deserved from my Earthly point of view.
It was a chilly day in January. We kind of trickled in that day to help. That afternoon I realized what happened.
-someone provided coffee
-someone provided a box truck
-someone provided a truck to pick up something across town
-someone provided new laundry connections AND did the connecting
-someone provided coffee
-someone watched kids so others could help
-someone came the next day to help clean the old place
I realize providing coffee and moving some boxes are not exactly spiritual gifts. But whenever, I think about this day, it reminds me of a popular passage. 1 Corinthians 12 talks about the variety of spiritual gifts and relates them to parts of the human body to illustrate how each gift is significant.
-Coffee is always good but if there is no one to drink it…then what?
-New laundry connections are a blessing but if you don't have the skills to attach them…then what?
-If the body was one eye, where would there be a sense of hearing? (v.17)
-If a foot says it is not part of the body, it does not make it any less part of the body. (v.15)
Each of us in an individual member of the Body of Christ. (v.27)
It was a chilly day in January. We kind of trickled in that day to help. That afternoon I realized what happened.
-someone provided coffee
-someone provided a box truck
-someone provided a truck to pick up something across town
-someone provided new laundry connections AND did the connecting
-someone provided coffee
-someone watched kids so others could help
-someone came the next day to help clean the old place
I realize providing coffee and moving some boxes are not exactly spiritual gifts. But whenever, I think about this day, it reminds me of a popular passage. 1 Corinthians 12 talks about the variety of spiritual gifts and relates them to parts of the human body to illustrate how each gift is significant.
-Coffee is always good but if there is no one to drink it…then what?
-New laundry connections are a blessing but if you don't have the skills to attach them…then what?
-If the body was one eye, where would there be a sense of hearing? (v.17)
-If a foot says it is not part of the body, it does not make it any less part of the body. (v.15)
Each of us in an individual member of the Body of Christ. (v.27)
Many different gifts have been appointed to us: gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. (v.28)
When all of these gifts are combined into one act, something beautiful and glorious happens. God is glorified. That day that a group of people moved the single mother…that day, God was glorified!
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