“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:12-13
We’re living in an era of interconnectedness – technology has made it so that none of us are ever necessarily by ourselves. We are closer than ever, yet have never felt more alone. We’re all searching desperately for our place to fit, our place to feel like we have a spot, like we were designed with a role, a purpose – like we were not just a mistake.
This verse states that the body of Christ is one body, functioning solidly together, a unit, created to be dependent on others, created to help others. If we lived with this in mind, would it be so easy to walk through this life as though we were alone, as though we were the missing piece of a puzzle we had not yet found?
You were designed with a purpose. Let that echo through your soul today. A purpose. A place. You matter within the body. And if you matter, if your gifts were created specifically, designed with integrity, made for a purpose, so were everyone else’s. There is no status structure. One gift does not rise above another’s, one person is not elevated over one another because of upbringing or skin tone or the kinds of clothes you wear.
Christ is our purpose. Emanating Him. Bringing His kingdom. When you feel lost, when you feel like you don’t fit, rest on that. It’s easy to feel lonely, to feel misunderstood, left out, discarded, unacknowledged. To feel less than. But there is no hierarchy in Christ.
And when you feel that way, lost, like you aren’t part of His grandiosity, walk among the trees. Look at the creations He has brought forth from the chaos. You are part of that picture, part of that creation.
Submitted by Sydney Meyer
Prayer
Heavenly Father, you created it all and saw that it was very good. Help us to remember that we are part of this picture, that we are part of the kingdom-bringers and the creation. We have a role, a responsibility, a place. Remind us of this on the darkest nights, we pray. Amen.