Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from the group Casting Crowns singing … If We Are The Body … powerfully singing challenging us all, as Cristians to be the Body, the entire Body, of Christ in this world.
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Highlight Verse[s]: 1 Corinthians 12:12 [NKJV] … 12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
… Many diverse gifts … but ONE BODY.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 1 Corinthians 12:4-14 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, explains how the diversity of Christ’s Body, the Church, must use the diversity of our individual gifts to work TOGETHER for God’s glory.
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Reference Passage : … Romans 12:3-8 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… Paul, explaining to Christians (you and me) how we must pool our individual gifting to work TOGETHER for Christ is His Body.
Reference Passage : … Ephesians 4:11-16 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… As Christians are using our gifts powerful, in unison as one Body to serve Christ in this world?
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Keila Ochoa, uses a botanical word picture to illustrate how the diversity of Christ’s Body, the Church, must all come together, in unity, to serve Him in this world. The ODB author wrote: Corn, also called maize, is the staple food in my home country of Mexico. There are so many different types. You can find yellow, brown, red, and black cobs, even ones with a wonderful spotted pattern. [see photo] But people in the cities usually won’t eat the spotted cobs. Restaurateur and researcher Amado Ramírez explains that they believe uniformity is a synonym of quality. Yet the spotted cobs taste good, and they make excellent tortillas.
The church of Christ is much more similar to a spotted ear of corn than to a cob of just one color.
Once any reader has taken in the ODB word picture and the linked song by Casting Crowns, I think the challenge of this devotional loudly asks if each of us, as individual members of Christ’s Body (i.e., the Church) are coming TOGETHER, in unity of power and purpose, to serve our Lord.
What are your Spirit-imparted gifts? Are you using them, in unity with other Christians, to serve Christ? If not, why not?! And if so, PTL!!!
Let’s go do it - TOGETHER - today!!!
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You giving me gifts which I’m using here today, in this very blog, to serve You.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … Use my gifts, along with Your Body, for Your glory. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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