Good morning friends! I know it's been a while since our last Saturday, so I thought Monday would work nicely. I've been "composing" this Saturdays edition for two weeks now...struggling to find the right words...in short, I am AMAZED at creation!
It started with a frosty morning. The ground was covered in frost, the trees shimmered in the sunlight and each blade of grass was wrapped in icy crystals. This reminded me that God created each blade of grass to be different, distinct...just as each ice crystal and snow flake, each grain of sand, each tree and leaf, each star, each raindrop, each person...no two are the same...similar...but not the same. Then, I had an amazing conversation with a friend about how different things work for different people...what works for me in one situation, might totally mess you up... Which then tied in with the sermon at church and how each individual relationship with Christ is different. And, that, friends, is my favorite part!
Just like each relationship with each of your friends is different, so is the relationship you have with Christ. This starts with the basis of your relationship... What drew you to Christ? What attribute of His character lead you to realize you needed Him? Was it His love? His forgiveness? His grace? His mercy? His judgement? ...it's different for each person...no two relationships are the same... BECAUSE, Jesus calls each of us individually, specially, personally, in love. Wow. God created each of us differently, so our coming to relationship with Christ is different, so our PURPOSE in serving Christ is different, so we can all fit into the one body of Christ! Think about it...
"Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ...Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body...The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it..." 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
God created each of His children to be different so that we could each work a different purpose in serving the Kingdom and bringing the fullness of Glory to God! And, therefore, where would we be without each other to work with us? And, all of this individual work is magnified when God brings our purposes together for a time, as friends, so we can work together, not as one, but as many to fulfill His purpose (including something even as simple as a coffee date, to be a picture, as Friends, of Christ's love to the world)! What a gift! NO other "religion" in the world can claim that promise! I look forward to every moment when our purposes for the Kingdom might come together.
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