Many Parts...

Today I sit in awesome wonder at yet another display of the Body of Christ at work

 in a seemingly impossible situation. 

To see people rising up, as they become alerted to the situation, 

and in their own sphere, 

some of them hundreds of miles from the source of the need,

 rising to the occasion

 is quite an exciting thing to me.

And I encourage us all who are in the Body: 

get up and do what it is that YOU can do in the household of faith. Maybe it seems insignificant to pray when you don't know what details surround the need you are asked to pray about. Pray anyway, in faith believing that God is at work and will work in the situation as He needs to.

The situation might warrant you to take time out of your schedule to go visit with a fallen brother/sister and appeal to him/her to repent and mend his/her ways. GO. Don't let a busy schedule, fear of man, or lack of caring stop you from going. Pray as you go. God will give you wisdom. And you may gain a brother/sister in doing so. 

Perhaps you are a close friend who drops what she is doing to go pray with a distraught sister through a hardship. Praise God. Take the time for what is important. May young daughter read Acts 2 recently and noted that we need more Acts 2 people in our generation.

Maybe you know someone has a need and you cannot leave your home today to be with them. How about you make extra supper tonite and slip the extras into her van on Sunday after church with a note of love and blessing to lift her spirits?

Or maybe a simple text is what you can give today. Send the Scripture to her that you read this morning and thought of how it fits her situation.

We need each other. There is far too much bickering and far too many walls thrown up to protect our pet ideas that seem threatened by a fellow traveler who sees things in our ideas that cause them concern. There is far too much independent thinking in our day and age. No, I'm not talking of us hitting the other ditch where we do not get to think on a personal level.

 I'm just saying, we need each other.