“… we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” (Ephesians 4:15-16, ESV )
You do realize that this is for you, for me, for all of us who have accepted and acknowledged Jesus as our Lord? Read the other scriptures: 1 Corinthians 14:1,39, 1 Thessalonians 5:19, 1 Timothy 4:14, 2 Timothy 1:6. Galatians 5:22-23 and Romans 12:6-8. IF, after reading these scriptures you aren’t convinced of who you are, how you are equipped and enabled, what you need to be and do… I don’t think you want to know.
And yes, that was harsh. We are living in the last days and we need to put our emotions under the control of our spirit. It’s way past time to wait on a more propitious time.
“Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.” (John 4:35)
Exactly what are we waiting on? And why? When you have the words of life given by our Lord (John 6:60-71) what more do we need? Ohhh… you don’t feel ‘called’ to do this? Or you don’t feel equipped, enabled to fulfill the responsibility? Excuses really don’t wash well.
When I speak this harshly, I’m also talking to myself. The Ephesians’ verses speak to WE doing the doing about growing. It speaks to WE who equip the body (church) when we work our part. Again, we each have a role, a part. And though I am repeating myself – read 1 Corinthians 12 again and over and over again until it so energizes you with confidence that you know you can be His Ambassador (2 Corinthians 5:17-21)
Seriously. We are living in the end times… but, even if we weren’t, we are equipped and enabled to fulfill our part in strengthening the body for the work of service. In taking that hesitant, even less than confident, step we find we are able to do what’s necessary. What’s at hand? That’s what you are called to at this moment in time.
