October
10, 2013
Romans
1:11-12
V
12 …mutually encouraged by each others faith, both yours and mine
These
two verses really speak to how much we, the Body of Christ, the Church, can help
each other. Paul is telling the church at Rome that he couldn’t wait to see
them because he knew that they could minister to him. Paul, inarguably the
greatest evangelist ever, apart from Christ, is saying that he would benefit
from being around other believers. This is just another example of how the
church is really intended to mirror a body with no one part more important than
the other. When everyone does their part all things run smoothly and the church
is as it is meant to be. Do we realize that the church is meant to be our resting
place; the one place that we can go to as an escape from the world? It is the
place that is filled with people who both love and serve God; so, naturally
this is the place our hearts long to be. However, this isn’t always the case.
For whatever reason sometimes parts of the “body” are sick or broken and we
lose some of what Paul was talking about. How sad would we be if we one day
realized that we, ourselves personally, was responsible for the body being
broken?
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