Out-Of-Joint

"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."  

Romans 12:4-5

When I was a little girl, I remember my sisters, brother and I always helping my mom one way or the other in the kitchen when she prepared for big holiday, family get-togethers.  My older sisters would help prepare the food, my brother would arrange the table and chairs, and my job was to fold the napkins, set them beside the dinner plate, and lay the silverware just so.  She knew the strengths and weaknesses of each one of us kids and she assigned each one of us different tasks to complete the end result.  No job was 'better' than the other. 

But sometimes, I wanted to be the one to help with the food.

Sometimes I didn't want to set the table, I wanted to do a bigger, more important job.

I found myself getting-out-of-joint.

Sometimes, I still see myself getting-out-of-joint.

I look around at all the other members in my local church and wish that I could be serving where they are serving.

Then God reminds me that He has given me different talents, gifts and abilities, and He placed me exactly where He wants me to be.

"From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love."  Ephesians 4:16

Just like my mom assigned each one of her children a different task to complete the same goal, my Heavenly Father places me in my local church to do a specific task to complete His goal. There is no big or small task when doing the Lord's work, we just need to work together in unity to reach the goal.

I've learned that God places me where He wants me to be...

    And when I stay where He places me, there is no reason to get-out-of-joint!

        But that's just me!

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much!"  Helen Keller