God has placed us in His glorious Body. He fashioned you uniquely. You fit in His Body. He created you to be useful and needed. When you realize this and begin to do your part, you will literally cause growth in the Body. The Apostle Paul said that this happens in the context of love. That is why many people don’t want to serve in the local church. They simply don’t love God’s Body. It’s not a priority to them. If you truly love God, you will love His Body, and you will make it a priority to get involved somehow and somewhere. God is pleased when we love those that He loves. Don’t do like so many who say that they don’t have time to get involved. Thank God that Jesus didn’t say that He had no time to go to the cross! As you mature in Christ, serving in the Body will come naturally, and it will be a priority.
Ephesians 4:16 – from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
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Paul shared with the Ephesians that the goal of discipleship was to grow to maturity, and from that posture, we would be able to speak the truth to each other in love. Today, the only thing that people want to hear is what makes them happy, or only what they agree with. Paul said that in the last days, people would have itching ears: 2 Timothy 4:3-4 – For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. We are seeing this today. It’s time to grow up in Christ and put away anything that would turn one away from the truth. Jesus called Himself the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Let’s speak the truth in love, and help others to find the truth!
Ephesians 4:15 – Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him who is the head, that is, Christ.
