The Body of Christ (Part 3)

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

1 Corinthians 12:26

I wanted to leave this one last because it's so important to know that every part of the body suffers and rejoices with each other. As soon as "one part suffers, every part suffers." I want to explain this portion with this analogy.

Say your doing something as simple as walking. It is so easy to walk if all your parts of the body are working. However, say you injure your knee in a sporting accident and can't put any weight on it. Since your knee is out of commission, the rest of your body suffers because you can't walk anymore. So what happens now? You need to still get around but you can't walk. What you would most likely do is get crutches. In order to use these crutches, both your arms need to be used to operate these crutches and more weight needs to be placed on your non-injured leg. Here, the rest of your body is working together to allow the injured knee to heal.

The same thing goes for the Body of Christ. If a part of the body is suffering, the rest of the body needs to be there to support that suffering part so that it can heal. The whole body will suffer if we allow that one part to continue to suffer. It is so important to support each other.

God Bless