Be You!

For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body- so also is Christ. For we were all baptised by one Spirit into one body- whether Jews or Greeks, Whether slave or free- and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. So the body is not one part but many. If the foot should say, "Because I'm not  a hand, I don't belong to the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I don't belong to the body, in spite of this it still belongs to the body. If the whole body were an eye where would the hearing be? If the whole body was an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But now God has placed each one of the parts in one body just as He wanted. And if they were all the same part, where would the body be? Now there are many parts, yet one body. 1Cor 12: 12-20
 
Paul is sensibly presenting a visual illustration to make a point. I get it! Do you? Each one of us is vital to the body so that it can function properly. I am so grateful to the plumber. I need a plumber when the plumbing is stuck but I don't want the job, it does not appeal to me. I remember the day when we had a toilet down the back yard, in a little out-house. A man came every week and took away the pan. It would have been a most disgusting job, but I was grateful for a new clean pan every week.
 
I understand figures and love maths and science. Yet there are those who hate both of these. I would go spare without interaction with either. My English comprehension was fair and I love words but I love to read a well written story, don't you? I can paint but there are those people with exceptional abilities, I puddle and enjoy my puddle, but I am not exceptional and I don't want to be. I Love to cook but I am not the world's best cook, I don't want to be, I want to admire those that are.
 
In Christ there are great pastors, I was an average pastor, I did my best but it drove me nuts, I wanted to be out with the lost, I love it here, others hate it. That's ok. You do the pastoring or the teaching, I will love the lost.
 
Give me room to be me, I will give you room to be you but use what you have been given. I depend on you to be the best you that you can possibly be because without you I can't be the best I can be. Got it?

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