An Image of Victory

Just like our physical bodies, I believe with all my heart, there is something written within the body of Christ. Something invisible that says, “This one should be lined up and connected with that one. This one should be fed by that one and helped by another one.”

Just like physical DNA, I believe there is spiritual DNA. A nose is only a growth if it’s not in the right place. Perfect as it might be, it can never perform the function it was meant to, or reach its full potential, until it is connected to the correct members of the body.

Worse yet, the whole body suffers if that nose is rebellious and will not submit to where it is supposed to be. If you are not connected and functioning within the body of Christ, not only are you not all you can be, but neither are we.

Too many times, well-meaning Christians look at someone else’s function and want it for themselves. There are great missionaries on the worship team, and effective Sunday School teachers who could lead hundreds of girls and boys to Christ, who are pointing cars to empty parking spots outside the church.

Know this: wherever you serve, you are appreciated. Just make sure you’re in the right place to use the gifts God has given you. Someone’s eternal life depends on it.

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our own image,” in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.  Genesis 1:27