Interdependence

Many of you may have heard us speak from I Corinthians 12:12-27. It's that passage that talks about the different parts of the body. We understand it to mean that God has us all, His church, working together to accomplish His purpose.

Only trouble is that we have to work together. Don't get me wrong. That is one of the wonderful lessons that God has been teaching us in recent years. It is important to work together. But we are quickly realizing that we depend on other's obedience to accomplish all that God has for us.

This is a challenging truth for us to work through. Have we kept others from accomplishing all that God had for them through our disobedience? Have others kept us from accomplishing all that God wants to do through us?

In the end we have to work together. In the end we have to trust that others are being obedient. In the end others have to trust that we are walking obediently. And I guess all of these things require faith. We have to have faith in God and our brothers and sisters in Christ. So these days find us having to work on living by faith every day. And each day God proves to be faithful. I just hope we are holding up our end of the deal.