Ephesians 1:23

Ephesians 1:23

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

Here is the proof text of the body being complete, lacking nothing. Complete and lacking nothing? Lacking nothing to do what? Ah, that is the question. The body of Christ is full and complete lacking nothing to accomplish His perfect will for that body in that time and place. So for example there are a group of twelve believers and the perfect will of God is to evangelize the entire world, is that too hard for God? Within that group lies all of the various giftings, motivations, empowerment, talents developed or undeveloped are all there. All the raw materials are there in place waiting for the direction of the Holy Spirit to guide and direct the plan made in Heaven. So it is even today, The Lord provides every single thing necessary to carry out and accomplish His will. All the resources are provided for, the building space, the ingenuity, the manpower the dollars are all there in place and then He will grant the vision to a leader and then He will also grant the leadership gifting to administrate and orchestrate the project and solve the problems and encourage the players along the way and eventually bring it on to completion. That is if all concerned are walking in the Spirit, willingly using their giftings and talents and following after a leader who is full of the Spirit and led of God.

Whenever we find that there are people in the Body of Christ that are burned out or are bored or are fruitless it is inevitably due to some disorder or misguidance. Perhaps they are about a task that was not ordained from heaven and the resources were not provided by God and the leader proceeded anyway trying to accomplish his will in his own strength. There is where you find dryness, fruitless, graceless, service usually based on rote routine, compulsion, guilt, fear, manipulation and the like. This should not be so. Let us be careful to be motivated by a clear vision from Heaven, and under the authority of a leader who is filled with the Spirit and proceed to pour out our lives with all of its gifts and talents in accordance with the will of God to accomplish His Will His way. The result is found in how we find this yoke to be easy and the burden light and the spring of living water continuing to flow up and out of us is without scarcity or end. That is how we know it is led of God. Anything short of that is in need of adjustment, rethinking,  realignment or perhaps forgoing altogether.

application

Today I need to evaluate the way that I am serving in the Body of Christ and to make sure that it is led of the Spirit and not of the flesh.

To read my wife Margaret's thoughts on this verse go to her blog here:
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