Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, September 30 (12:12-13)
“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit” ―1 Corinthians 12:12, 13.
THE unity of the body is not merely a doctrinal tenet. It is a blessed and precious reality. Through the baptism of the Holy Spirit all believers are united to the Risen Lord, the Church’s Head, in heaven, and to one another. This is an indissoluble relationship, and because of it, “the members should have the same care one for another,” rejoicing when a member is honored, feeling for one who suffers, and standing loyally by those who have to endure persecution. This is to hold the truth of the one Body. It is quite another thing to acknowledge it as an article of faith. Many do this who show little or no concern for their fellow-members and the trying experiences many of them are called to pass through.
—F. Whitfield.