God of Creative Care

Have you ever marveled at the human body? It's truly a wondrous thing. 

For the most part, your eyebrows know to stay over your eyes; they never take over you whole forehead. If you lose your vision, your hearing gets better to accommodate for the loss. When you're sick, your healing cells know just what to attack and what to leave alone. You can live a whole life with one kidney, but you have two for some reason. Just like you have an appendix, but you can live without it, too. 

And this is not specific to you - this is the design of the human being. All the way back in the beginning, when there was formless and void and God had only His incredible imagination, He knelt down into the dirt and crafted this. This body that is bone wrapped in muscle wrapped in skin that somehow knows how to take care of itself and every part knows its function and works together with all the other parts to make us beings capable of, well, worship. 

That's the goal, right? We were created to worship. To glorify and to love and to live and to hope and to forgive and to show mercy and to give grace and to praise and to worship. 

Guess what? 

The same care that God put into creating the human body, He also put into creating the body of Christ - the church. 

1 Corinthians 12:18 says that "in fact, God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as He wanted them to be." 

Think about that for a second. 

Your toes are created the way they are to give you the right balance and to help you move; that guy standing next to you who can't sing a note on pitch to save his life is also there for balance and movement. 

Your liver and kidneys are designed to help eliminate toxins from your body; that woman who doesn't share your opinion of someone else or joins a different small group is also there to help eliminate toxins from the body. 

Your hair is made to cover your head and creates a stunning beauty; that fella over there? Creates stunning beauty in your fellowship. 

There are persons in your church who make you flexible, who make you strong, who make you attractive, who make you clean, who hold you together or build you up or shake you down. And every single one of them was put there by God, just as He wanted them to be, with the same tender, loving, creative care that He used when He first formed the dirt into something living, breathing, and created to worship. 

Because that's what this body is for, too.