The Message
Well today, i just decided dat i'm gonna be doing a bit more intensive bible reading than usual.. But this time round, i decided to read a different version. So i went online and started reading 1 Cor in the Message version of the bible..
And boy did i have a good time reading it! I love it because it amused me, it was hilarious some parts of it, it was right up in ur face, it was written in a tone and style of language dat a guy like me can appreciate and understand, it brought out the essence of wat Paul had to say to the Corinthians. Bottom line is.. i really DIGGED it!
Haha! SO, QT comes early tonight! hahaha! Well, of cos i learnt something new :) in fact a few things, a few new insights into the Word :)
Just wanna share a few passages from 1 Cor 12:12-24
12-13You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body. It's exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain—his Spirit—where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves—labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free—are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive.
14-18I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, "I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body," would that make it so? If Ear said, "I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head," would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.
19-24But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn't be a body, but a monster. What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own. Can you imagine Eye telling Hand, "Get lost; I don't need you"? Or, Head telling Foot, "You're fired; your job has been phased out"? As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way—the "lower" the part, the more basic, and therefore necessary. You can live without an eye, for instance, but not without a stomach. When it's a part of your own body you are concerned with, it makes no difference whether the part is visible or clothed, higher or lower. You give it dignity and honor just as it is, without comparisons. If anything, you have more concern for the lower parts than the higher. If you had to choose, wouldn't you prefer good digestion to full-bodied hair?
Reading these passages really cracked me up! hahaha! And what with the bodyparts 'arguing' about who is more impt or wat.. i was reminded of a joke of which i will not blog down here.. BUT if you are wondering what or why.. here's a link to it: http://jokes.federal.ro/joke/631.htm
;) Hahaha! Although i dun necessarily concur with the moral of the story in the joke, it still parallels wat the bible is trying to teach us here about the importance of unity. Indeed no man is an island yea? We are where we are today because of the people in our lives who have made that possible. Think about it for a sec. Even you didn't own ur own good looks or your good genes. Those came from your parents who got theirs from their parents and so on so forth ;)
The part dat really impacted me is highlighted in yellow :) No matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you're part of.. BIG WOW ;) And wat a perfect word i got from the Lord, it coincides with wat we learnt in service last weekend! Unity and agreement. CHC is wat it is today not because of one man or one woman, but because of what everybody was part of - that is, they were a part of each other, one body, one vision :) Dat's why God manifested Himself :)
So, husbands and wives.. no matter how significant you think you are, it is only because you are a part of your spouse. Without him/her, u're incomplete :)
The place of agreement is truly the place of power :)
I'm goin off to read my bible..~ cheers!
And boy did i have a good time reading it! I love it because it amused me, it was hilarious some parts of it, it was right up in ur face, it was written in a tone and style of language dat a guy like me can appreciate and understand, it brought out the essence of wat Paul had to say to the Corinthians. Bottom line is.. i really DIGGED it!
Haha! SO, QT comes early tonight! hahaha! Well, of cos i learnt something new :) in fact a few things, a few new insights into the Word :)
Just wanna share a few passages from 1 Cor 12:12-24
12-13You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body. It's exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain—his Spirit—where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves—labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free—are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive.
14-18I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, "I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body," would that make it so? If Ear said, "I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head," would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.
19-24But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn't be a body, but a monster. What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own. Can you imagine Eye telling Hand, "Get lost; I don't need you"? Or, Head telling Foot, "You're fired; your job has been phased out"? As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way—the "lower" the part, the more basic, and therefore necessary. You can live without an eye, for instance, but not without a stomach. When it's a part of your own body you are concerned with, it makes no difference whether the part is visible or clothed, higher or lower. You give it dignity and honor just as it is, without comparisons. If anything, you have more concern for the lower parts than the higher. If you had to choose, wouldn't you prefer good digestion to full-bodied hair?
Reading these passages really cracked me up! hahaha! And what with the bodyparts 'arguing' about who is more impt or wat.. i was reminded of a joke of which i will not blog down here.. BUT if you are wondering what or why.. here's a link to it: http://jokes.federal.ro/joke/631.htm
;) Hahaha! Although i dun necessarily concur with the moral of the story in the joke, it still parallels wat the bible is trying to teach us here about the importance of unity. Indeed no man is an island yea? We are where we are today because of the people in our lives who have made that possible. Think about it for a sec. Even you didn't own ur own good looks or your good genes. Those came from your parents who got theirs from their parents and so on so forth ;)
The part dat really impacted me is highlighted in yellow :) No matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you're part of.. BIG WOW ;) And wat a perfect word i got from the Lord, it coincides with wat we learnt in service last weekend! Unity and agreement. CHC is wat it is today not because of one man or one woman, but because of what everybody was part of - that is, they were a part of each other, one body, one vision :) Dat's why God manifested Himself :)
So, husbands and wives.. no matter how significant you think you are, it is only because you are a part of your spouse. Without him/her, u're incomplete :)
The place of agreement is truly the place of power :)
I'm goin off to read my bible..~ cheers!
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