Imperfect Bodies

Posted on May 15, 2010
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Honor, duty, faithfulness. All virtues we esteem.

Our journey through life, as Christians, takes many turns. Some of them rather common and a few rather exhilarating. Steadiness and consistency may seem boring, but they are actually quite hard to do. For example, to be consistently patient towards those who drive us nuts is hard.

Sometimes the hardest things to do is to do the right things faithfully for the right reason.

Hard things can be easier when we emotionally connect them to our love for Jesus. To love our church and to love those in them is sometimes hard. But if we connect the people in the church to our love for the Head of the church, and see ourselves collectively as the body of our Lord, we can gain a new perspective and motivation to love our Christian brothers and sisters.

It’s sometimes easy to bemoan the church for all its imperfections. But replace “church” with “body of Jesus Christ” and our sense of honor and duty and faithfulness to the church should be stirred and rekindled. Thankfully, Jesus is good at stirring up our love for the things that really matter.

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