“For the body is not one member, but many.”– 1 Cor. 12:14
As you might expect, being a preacher I love to preach. But, what might surprise you, there is something else that I love almost as much, sometimes more! I’m not talking about a hobby. I’m talking about studying God’s word, which is essential to preaching. By the way, that isn’t natural for me. The reason I love preaching is because that’s what God called me to do, not something I chose. As Paul said, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” ( Phil. 2:13).. Both the desire and the doing comes from God.
I mention this because that’s the way you should feel about what God has called you to do. My wife would tell you that God’s will for her life has been and is to be my helpmeet and a homemaker. And she does both extremely well. And from all appearance she loves it. She keeps going even when I beg her to stop. It isn’t God’s plan for every man to be a preacher, but God has a plan for every man. And I can tell you that we would fail as a church if everything depended on me, or you, or any other person. No one can do everything. Under the direction of the Holy Spirit, Paul likened the church to a body– the whole of which is dependent upon the function of the different members. That being the case “That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.”(1 Cor. 12:25).
No member of the Lord’s church should feel inferior or superior to the other members. “God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.” ( 1 Cor. 12:18). We are all different and all are important. Regardless of how God chooses to use you it should be considered a great honor and it deserves your best. There’s an old song that says, “ Do what you do do well boy… Give your love and all your heart. And do what you do do well.”. If you are doing the will of God from the heart you need never feel inferior to anyone. — HDS
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
