“For by one Spirit we were
all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free,
and we were all made to drink of one Spirit” (I Cor. 12:13). In other words, “...we were made to share.”
Hey
Gang: Time for another lesson from the
old man that is older than dirt. I have
learned along the way it is easy to fall by the wayside and thrown under the
bus without anybody ever noticing. But
getting run over is not the real problem – it is being fearful to seek out a
brother or sister to share that you have been run over because you fear they
will think you are on some sort of pity party, or just plain weak of faith.
Paul
says, get over it; refuse to live in bondage to that kind of stinking –
thinking. He clarified that point when
he wrote that we were made to share and carry each other in times of wilderness
experiences. In the Scripture verse for the day, he wrote,
“For by one spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Greeks,
either slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. “
God said it is not good for man to be alone.
“Because we are wired to be communal in nature and crave to be connected. We need people to laugh with, talk with,
interact with and yes, even to cry with.
When that does not happen we are not strengthened by receiving, and
others are not blessed by our giving.
But
a word of caution: Do not hold a person
to such high esteem that they lead you down the wrong pathways; nor worship at
the altar of their public opinions in order
to stay in their good graces; nor
be intimidated into being anyone other than the person God made you to be.
Soooo,
with that in mind, make sure you reach out and share your burdens. The help you need is just around the
corner. Paul wrote, “For even as the body is one and yet has
many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one
body, so also is Christ.” (2 Cor. 12:12).
Blessings,
Gramps
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