I had a completely different post ready for today. Then I decided that it wasn’t ready. It raised a couple questions I wasn’t ready to answer. But as I was reading through my sermon yesterday, I realized that this might be helpful.

It’s referring to one of the texts for Sunday, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31.

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We understand our aches and pains. Which is why Paul uses the image of the body to talk about the church, the body of Christ. We understand it every day.

What he says to all of us as a community is this:

You are like a body. You are all necessary and valuable.
You are each helpful to the rest of the body in ways that you can’t even understand.
Because of your function, you can get injured in different ways.
And each of you will struggle a little to understand that injury, because it isn’t your way. And each of you will have a hard time understanding why.
But when you learn to care for each other, you will be following the lead and the law of Christ.

See, as important as it is to care for each other, it rests on the foundation of responding to, being part of, the work that God is doing.

And it rests on love.

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