2/24/17 - Friday - 1 Corinthians 12:14-15 - For the body does not consist of one member but of many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

Julie:
I'm just trying to imagine a body where the feet are hands, the legs are hands in the palms of more hands, the ribs are fingers branching out from two hands that create the back, the heart is a fist, the eyes are hands that open and close, you get the idea. How can a fist pump blood throughout the body? Wait, where is the blood amongst this "hand body"? The only way a healthy body can function properly is if all the parts are healthy and working well. If a toe is sick and has gangrene, it can infect the whole body and kill it. The rot begins to take hold of the whole foot enabling the body from walking, soon the infection hit the blood stream and goes to the heart causing the heart to be posioned. Since the heart is too sick but continues to fight, the blood pressure drops. When the blood pressure drops too low, the limbs of the body do not get as much oxygen, thus they begin to die. So, because the toe was sick, the whole body failed. It is not only vital that all parts of the body work, but that they are well. As common trick the enemy does is tells us that because we are only a toe and not a heart or head, that we are discouraged. This leaves us feeling depressed, unworthy, abandoned, suicidal. This small nic that the enemy inflicts on us can so easily become infected. So we have the eyes to keep watch over our toe. We have the heart to sympathize for the toe. We have a head to discern how to treat the toe. The toe is a vital part of the body because without it, the body is not complete. Period! If a man who belongs to the body of Christ removes himself, the body is no longer complete. Period! There are many missing body parts to Christ's body, and that is why we are so broken. If the body where whole and all the parts were working properly, we as individual parts would not feel so incomplete.