Klahrs Devotionals

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

"INTERDEPENDENCE"

One of my friends mentioned that the armor of God doesn’t have any protection for the back. Someone remarked that was because we are to advance, not retreat.

Someone else said that the back of a Christian has no need for armor because the love of Christ, flowing through each of us, protects and does not harm our fellow believer. Interdependence must come into play in this picture. That we are losing this interdependence is evident by the headlines in the daily news.

The very nature of any healthy living organism is interdependence. Survival is dependent on the cooperative function of all their organs. Without interdependence and cooperation, the Church will be in a continual struggle for survival.

Our hope lies in having the attitude of Christ. He was willing to serve and to wash the feet of Judas, his betrayer. "Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under His power, and that He had come from God and was returning to God." In these circumstances He chose to serve.

We are the body of Christ. He is the head and that in itself involves interdependence. God places us where He will have us in the body. I Corinthians 12:18 "God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as He wanted them to be."

The Spirit teaches believers what the Father tells Him. The theme of His teaching is centered in Christ. We perform the duties that are to be carried out until Christ comes again. We do this in the power of the Spirit and with the attitude of a servant.

We, as the body of Christ, living in mutual interdependence, complementing each other, reveal the manifold wisdom of God to rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 3:10