I Corinthians 12:14, 18 - 20
For the body is not one member, but many… But now God has placed the members, each of them, in the body, just as He desired. And if they were all one member, where would the body be? But now there are many members, but one body.
As I walked into the Community Center at Mariners Church at 7:45 on Saturday evening, I was overwhelmed with emotion. The 700 chairs we rented were all there and set up. The awards were gleaming in the stage lighting, all set up. The DVD was done and handed to the sound guy. The ballots were in the back in crates, alphabetized. The scripts were right behind them. Lost and found throughout the campus was also on its own table.
This wasn’t the work of one person, this was the work of The Body!
I know you haven't heard from me in a couple of months. I've been busy planning a big speech and debate tournament. 414 competitors. 298 families. Over 400 community judges. About 50 "workers" who helped run this tournament. At times it was overwhelming at what needed to be done and accounted for, like little pieces of paper with one word cut up and put into 16 envelopes to whether or not everyone had paid their fees.
On Wednesday, driving over to the start of the tournament, I was overwhelmed again, as I called my husband and told him that I could do no more. I was "empty" and that Christ was going to have to do the rest. I told him that I could never run a country, nor a state. One tournament was enough for me. He told me that if I did ever decide to run a state, that I would be surrounded by perfectly capable paid staff who would answer my every whim.
But the amazing thing was that I had a perfectly capable VOLUNTEER staff who did answer my every whim. What could be better than that?
Time and time again, I am impressed by the way the Body of Christ works. When everyone knows what they are going to do, things work like clock work, and everything gets done on time. AMAZING! And how great is our God to know the inner workings of a clock and even more profound, the inner workings of people! To God be the Glory.
