The rains came down and the flowers came up! (I know that is NOT the way the Vacation Bible School song goes, but for Spring blogging it seemed appropriate!) I am amazed at the intricate functioning of our world. I am not a science major or minor. Just a homemaker that appreciates God beauty in His creation and the way He made all things interactive with each other. Dependent on each other.
He wrote examples in the Bible of the interdependence of the human body and then equated the church, those who are in Christ, to be intricately functioning as would a human body, as the world He created does. A rhythm of life. A song played together on many instruments or with many voices. All in harmony. Beautiful when all parts blend and move as one song, but when a note or chord is sung or played that doesn't belong or is a bit off the whole...the WHOLE song is thrown off. Whether a little or a lot, the whole song suffers.
Just as in one body in Christ, when one suffers, we all suffer. But rather than try to eliminate that suffering, why don't I as a person, or we as a church, embrace that suffering as part of our lives. Move it into our center and allow Christ through us to heal it and use it with His power of faith and grace from the cross. What was meant to ruin a beautiful melody then becomes the grace notes of a bigger, better, tighter harmony, than it would ever have been if the suffering had not occurred.
Any who sing with a group knows how hard tight harmonies are. How the voice, hearing, heart, and mind ache right before a discord resolves into harmony. Oh but the beauty of the song because of the resolve!!!
I rejoice in the discords of life for I know that my Lord will be resolving any and all of the suffering I endure with His power. Not the power of force, but the power of grace. His intricate, interactive grace notes, resolving my life into His song.
Romans 5:1-5 (New International Version)
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
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