1 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry for mercy.
2 Because he turned his ear to me,
I will call on him as long as I live.
4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
From DSC:
I remember several times in my career thinking — no…wishing — I had more skills or capabilities than what I possessed. I was trying to make significant contributions, and I didn’t have all the skills to carry out my ideas. But I was likely too ambitious in my younger days. I was taught to be that way from the start. But primarily it came from my background as an athlete — where I was taught to compete with other people. Not to be in relationships with them, but to compete against them. (Legions of athletes are currently in the same boat, I’m sure. That’s how we were taught to be. That’s often how competition works.)
So when a pastor told us a while back, “It’s not about you!” — that sounded shocking and confusing to my selfish, ambitious self. “You’re kidding me!,” I’m sure I felt and thought.
Romans 12:4-5 lets us know that we each have our God-given gifts and abilities — but no one person on this Earth has all of the gifts and abilities out there. We each play our role. Like the body, we each have different purposes and functions. It’s humbling. And it’s relational.
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.