“The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I don’t need you!’ And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you!’” . . . “But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” 1 Corinthians 12:21, 24-26 (NIV)
We are just getting through a technical electronics issue at our place. A friend thought it would be a great idea to “link and sync” all our electronics . . . so we let her! It didn’t take too long to figure out that it may not be that good a concept.
Now, every time a FaceTime call comes in, both our iPads and both iPhones start ringing at the same time (all with different rings)! It sounds like 11 cats scrapping it out in the feline division of WWF’s Battle Royal! Even if I’m 100 miles away, I pick up my wife’s calls, and vice versa. We’ll be “de-linking and de-syncing” very soon. This is just not working!
But meanwhile, it kind of reminds me of the description of God’s family in 1 Corinthians 12. We see there that we are all linked as family and, when one member is hurting, everyone hurts. When one is celebrating, the others celebrate with them. That’s because we are one as a family. I hurt for my brother, and they do the same for me when I’m the hurting unit.
God put things together that way and, in His Family, it works! (It just doesn’t translate when it comes to electronics!)
– Kene Jackson
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