ROMANS 12:4-5

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

TO PONDER

Every Christmas I watch the classic movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” and every year allergies get the best of me and cause my eyes to get watery (I’m not crying, you’re crying!) when George Bailey is shown all the lives he has touched and what the world would have been like if he hadn’t lived.

If you have never watched this classic movie, I would suggest you change that and if you have, watch it again but watch it through the eyes of being part of church, watch it as a parable about you and being part of the body of Jesus, the church.

Today’s verses could almost be a synopsis of the parable of church that is “It’s a Wonderful Life” as Paul compares church to the human body and how every part of that body has a role to play. If any part of the body is not fulfilling its role or is missing, the body is handicapped in some way.

And, just as George Bailey was shown that the life of those around him was handicapped/lacking without him, so to church is handicapped/lacking without us fulfilling our function.

Everybody is needed in the church, everybody has a role to play, everybody has something to add to the body.

PRAYER:  Lord Jesus, I give you praise for inviting me to be an integral part of your body, that I have an ordained function to fulfil within the church. Help me to faithfully play my part.  Amen.

Today's devotion written by Danny Brock, LifeWay Westside