The Body of Christ and the Responsibility of Healing

This morning in church, I was thinking about the body of Christ. I don’t exactly know what prompted my thoughts on this topic, most likely the Spirit, but I have thought a lot about it today, and feel that the Spirit has just opened my mind to things that my mortal man could never have thought on my own. The minister said something about the body of Christ, although I don’t remember any part of what he said, but it got me thinking about healing in the body of Christ. Now, it will probably be pretty obvious that I know nothing about human anatomy or any anatomy for that matter. This is my take on human anatomy though. So we hear all the time how we need to work together as a body of believers and so on. It gets kind of repetitive and we become so use to it, that we forget the depth and meaning of it. Princeville has had some hurtings lately, a death and such like. We need healing. Now say you get a cut on your knee. If it’s not very deep, we may not put anything on it. I guess this would be like if someone was struggling, a lot of us wouldn’t notice. Now if the cut was a bit deeper, we would have to put a bandage on it. The bandage can’t put it’s self on the knee, so another part or parts of the body has to help put it on. This is where we as believers come into place. We can see or know if someone is hurting, and we can provide comfort, encouragement, but more importantly prayers. That won’t completely heal the wound though. A bandage is something so stop the bleeding. To completely heal, the internal organs or whatever it is that heals the body has to work. Now I would apply the inside of our body to the Spirit. He is the Great Physician, and can heal all our wounds no matter the size. We all have the Spirit within us that prompts us to do or say certain things. That is what joins us together as a body. The Spirit is the most vital part of the body of Christ, because if we are all following his leadings, we can properly function, but if we aren’t, we tend to slip and get scrapes and scratches. The Spirit will prompt us to help but a bandage on the scraped knee, but he ultimately does the healing from inside. If a part of the body gets broken, it doesn’t keep using that part. It uses the rest of the body to lean on until healed. We need to be that crutch, no matter how much or how less we get leaned on. If it just means praying for someone, so be it. If it means reaching out, and listening to someone pour out their heart to you, then so be it. We need to always be ready to heal, because we never know when a part of the body trips and gets hurt. I feel as if there is so much more to say, but I want to leave you with a few verses. Only one of the verse has the word “heal” in it, but I feel as though we can apply the other verse to responsibilities in the body of Christ.

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time of war, and a time of peace. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8