I got to thinking tonight about how we view ourselves in relation to others. It's really easy to compare yourself with someone, especially a friend who seems to "have it all". All of what you wanted...

I admit that I am constantly being caught red handed thinking like that.

 "Why do you always get asked to do that...?","maybe it's because I'm not good enough.." or "what she does is much better than what I do..." I just get so caught up and slowly the green monster that was in the distance is in full attack! And I get angry at that person for having these wonderful gifts that I could only dream of; completely bypassing the ones that God has so gracefully given me although I am so utterly undeserving.

What a gracious God we serve, whom gives us these gifts so freely. What a clever God, whom puts us all together to form a well oiled machine called His Church- each person a cog, a wheel, a bolt, a screw...all fitting together and running smoothly. 

I read through 1 Corinthians 12 today and was reminded that each of us has a purpose. We are all called to serve the Lord, but in the way that HE wants us to serve. He calls each of us by name (wow!) to where HE wants us to be. Because, when it comes to getting the things done, God is the best at Human Resourcing and will certainly choose the right person for the job.

So I am a cog. A cog in one huge machine.

And a happy little cog I am :)

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

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!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. 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.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 

1 Corinthians 12:12-27