Daily Encounter: A Week-day Devotional by a staff of ACTS International.

Thursday, March 2, 2017

"For as the body [the Church] is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body ... And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it."¹

Evxn though my typxwritxr is an old modxl, it works quitx wxll xxcxpt for onx of the kxys. I havx many timxs wishxd that it workxd pxrfxctly.

It is trux that thxrx arx forty-onx kxys that function wxll xnough, but just onx kxy not working makxs thx diffxrxncx.

Somxtimxs it sxxms to mx that our church is somxthing likx my typxwritxr—not all thx kxy pxoplx arx working propxrly.

As onx of thxm, you may say to yoursxlf, "Wxll, I am only onx pxrson, I don't makx or brxak thx church."

But it doxs makx a big diffxrxncx, bxcausx a church, to bx xffxctivx, nxxds thx activx participation of xvxry pxrson.

So, thx nxxt timx your xfforts arx not nxxdxd vxry much, rxmxmbxr my typxwritxr and say to yoursxlf, "I am a kxy pxrson in thx congrxgation and I am nxxdxd vxry much."

This is what happxns to thx wholx church, and multiply this by many timxs—thx wholx thing just doxs not makx sxnsx!² 

So don't be a broken key—be a useful one.

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, thank you that I have an important part to play in your Church—the body of Christ. Help me to know what my part is and accept it positively and apply and use it diligently by faith. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus' name, amen."

1. 1 Corinthians 12:12, 26 (NKJV).
2. Author Unknown.

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