Responsibility

(1Corinthians 12:14) For the body does not consist of one member but of many.

Christianity is a call of the highest order. There can be no call greater, as the one who calls is the greatest of all. He is the creator of heaven and earth; He is the only true and living God; every creature that has ever lived and is still living was created by the spoken word of this great Jehovah. Life trickles from his very persona, He is life personified, He is light and in Him is no darkness. Man however was created from the dust of the earth and in the likeness of God. He was not created haphazardly, God never reason or acts without thought. But once He has settled something in His mind it is done. He is so far above mankind in every way that the Hubble telescope would be render useless when trying to explore Him. What He looks like, I cannot say other than he created man in His likeness, and so in one form or another, not flesh and blood, but a spirit being without any limitations, perfect in every way, and mankind resembles Him. However, of His character I can tell; He is love, is kind, is slow to anger, is patient, is gracious, is merciful, and is forgiving and so much more.

When God created Adam, it was not without a reason and a purpose, for God never does anything that He has not purposed.

(Gen 2:15-17) “The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

So man was created a gardener, he named all the animals and he walked with God and talk with Him in the garden, he did not need to work as we know it, all his food was provided for.

"You may surely eat of every tree of the garden...” yet with instruction on what he could not do and should not do was clear if God’s voice was ignored it would come with server consequences. “...but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

We all know how that ended up, death and the curse was launched into existence, and both death and the curse found life and they now have only one purpose, and that is to destroy! Nevertheless, they both live yet without their sting. For every Christian who has the spirit of Christ living within them, the bible is very clear and this is what it says;

(1Corinthians 15:55) “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"

Obviously, if you are not born again, then you are not covered by this victorious war-cry. Death still has it power over you, hell is still your eternal destiny. What is one to do, you may cry? The answer is a call away, repent and call on the name of the Lord and you will be saved.

However we as Christians often think all we need is the Lord. This is true all we need is His righteousness but will we follow His instruction. We, me included, often think it is far better to be alone at home reading our bibles and praying to our Lord without distraction. Other people just get in the way, they think differently they do not see things the way I see them and quite frankly when I am always competing to get my point across it can get rather trying at times. The thought I am tempted to settle with, is my Lord and I.

This is not enough, and it is not what we are taught from scripture. If you think otherwise you have been deceived. Let us look at our text; “for the body does not consist of one member but of many. “ We need each other, whether you think we do or not, we need to be found at a church, supplying our measure to one another. This God Himself has purposed, let us remember the consequence for Adam when He knew to do something and he did not do it. Let us step up to the plate and be counted. Find your place in the body of Christ (a local church) and sound doctrine must be high on its agenda because in the last days...

(2Timothy 4:3) “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;”

It is God’s design for all believers to get involved with other believers, provoking each other to good works. May the God and Father of our Saviour, our great King, even Jesus Christ our Lord be merciful and write these truths on all His children’s heart equipping us to be doers and not hearers only.

Signing off

Tyrone