Verse of the Day for May 10

Paul does not say we are members of the church. He says we are members one of another. That is a far more personal sentence. Your hand belongs to my body, and mine to yours.

Under pressure that truth gets lost. We start to believe that if anything is going to get done, we will have to do all of it ourselves. Preach, teach, comfort, organise, and pay for the fuel.

Paul answers with a phrase that sounds almost restful. let us wait on our ministering. Stay with your piece. If you teach, teach. If you serve, serve. Gifts are differing according to the grace that is given to us, which means you were never meant to carry every one.

There is real relief in that. Burnout often comes from carrying a gift that was never handed to you. The body has other members for a reason.

Perhaps you are the one in your family everyone calls when there is a crisis, and your phone has not stopped ringing all week. Ask what is truly yours to carry, and let another member of the body carry the rest.

You are a member, not the whole body.

Waiting on your own ministry is not laziness, it is faithfulness.