Nice. Naive. Beautiful

I’ve always known that the Bible calls the church of Christ His body on many accounts. Most of the time, Paul brings this metaphor to our hearts talking about the necessity of union in diversity, calling us to work as one, even if we think “we don’t need an ear or an eye”. (1 Corinthians 12:12-26) I think we can all agree that these things are very true and very necessary to remember as we walk as one body. But here’s the point. I woke up this morning thinking about being a body, literally. I am a body. Well, I’m a soul with a body, but you get my point. I started looking at my hands, I felt my ears, I blinked my eyes. I thought, ‘man, this is intricate.’ As a sociology major, I don’t ponder upon biological matters very often, so just humor me in my baby-like discoveries. I’m not a morning person, and I love lying in bed for a while. I started thinking, if I were to never get out of bed, my body would die. It would shrivel up and be completely useless. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but if a live body decides to never get out of bed, it starts losing muscle mass, losing motor skills, losing strength. It becomes absolutely immobilized. I decided I’d better get out of bed! Then I started thinking about my brothers and sisters in Christ. I started thinking about all of those body parts. And I really understood what it meant to be the body of Christ. And more of what it meant, what it implies and the responsibilities that come with it. The (biological) body is meant to be in movement. It’s meant to burn off energy. It consumes, but it is designed to ‘get rid of things’. The same thing happens in the dynamic of ‘church’. As the body of Christ, we are absolutely intended to be in constant movement. We consume the word of God and grow together, but if we don’t ‘get out of bed’ every single day and ‘burn off what we consume’, the body of Christ WILL DIE.