Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Daily Lectionary: 1 Kings 1:1-4, 15-35; 1 Corinthians 12:14-31 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. (1 Corinthians 12:18) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. What a strange conversation Paul presents to us: body parts talking to each other! The foot seems depressed because it has the boring work of supporting the body. It is not like the important hand with its opposable thumb! The ear is jealous of the eye and in their envy and jealousy, the foot and the ear want to quit the whole body. But if they were to jump ship, there would be no body at all. God put each part in the body "as He chose. You are the body of Christ and individually members of it." Paul is not talking about some imaginary world of talking body parts. He is speaking about you! Earlier in 1 Corinthians 12, Paul wrote, "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one bo