His Choice Not Mine

1Corinthians 12:18 "But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him.

Here we have a passage of scripture which gives the most meaningful description of the Church in the entire bible (1 corinth.12:12-31).The purpose of the passage is to stress the unity of the church.The church is said to be a body,a body of many member,and no one member is  more important or valuable than another.All the parts of the body are still in the body and God placed each member in the body, everyone of them where it pleased Him.

In this era of the mega church and the larger than life religious leaders, it is easy for some in the church to feel unimportant or un-neccesary.But we must understand that God dosn't make any mistakes,every person in every congregation has a value and a gift to be used in the worship ,service and the plan of God's plan of salvation.Each member is set "in the body" as God wills. Note the words "every one of them",every member has been set in the church by God and gifted by God to do a work in the church. We are all gifted for a spicific function.Think your finger nails are not needed, cut them and then get an itch.We sometimes allow others or the world to tell us where God wants us in the body.God places you in the body where it pleased Him.God will place you in a area of the body,that will strengthen your walk as well as aid another in theirs.We must remember we are His people,proclaiming His gospel about His salvation to His lost souls, so He knows better than us where we belong.

Let us allow the spirit of the Lord to lead us to the part of the body where he wants us to be.Let the your gift be used to glorify God and to build His kingdom.Each of us are distinct,but togeher we are one body.We are who we are and have the gifts we have and are where we are because it is God's will,so let us glorify God and walk in a unity of the one body.