Today’s lectionary reading continues the passage from 1 Corinthians 12, where Paul tells the Corinthians about the gifts we are given and how we are knit together.
No one is any more important than the other. “and those members of the body that we think less honourable we clothe with greater honour, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect;” Paul tells us that the lowly members are given more respect. The members that think they are all that really aren’t and need the rest of the body. The ear can’t say I’m the best and only part you need… No part is able to be the body by itself…
“But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honour to the inferior member, 25that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another.” God arranged the body so that we are all put on a level playing field and no one can hoard power over another, no body part can claim to be the lead and the one who calls the shots. We are all to have the same care for one another. We all need to care for each other. This means that any member of the body we cut down, or put down, we are only cutting down and putting down ourselves! We are not helping them, as many will say, but we are hurting ourselves. God through Jesus went ans was with people. He loved them where they were and gave them the love and grace that each of us received that we did not deserve… He loved everyone where they were. Yes He did say to them, “Go and sin no more.” After someone more religious pointed out their sin, which He says to us and we ignore or our flesh takes over. By claiming to be better than someone else and pointing out how they are wrong with God is not helping the body, but hurting us all…
Take care of the body, love as you have been loved… and remember you can not go it allow, and you are no better than anyone else.
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