A Body Assignment

 (given to and shared under inspiration of Ha Ruach Kodesh)
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A few things to try out.

Walk on your hands for one day.
Write with your toes for another.
Sit on your elbows.
Put food on your big toe.
Use your mouth to type with.
Carry something heavy with your nose.
Use your hips to smell a flower.
Walk without using your toes
Carry things without your arms.
Live a day without blood.

Consider various body parts to offer up to science and function without them.

Do these suggestions sound silly?
Well, then, begin chopping. If the body parts listed, which only happen to be a tiny amount, don't function the way you are asking them to, then chop them off! What need do we have of body parts that don't do what we think they ought to do! What use to us is a part that doesn't function the way we would like?

Sound like silliness?

If your foot is not your hand, then why keep it? And if my ear choose to separate from my body because it was not my eye, would it matter? What if my whole body was an eye and an ear, how could I smell? Is there really a body part you can live without? Happily?

Scriptures say:

1Co 12:12 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 Moshiach.
13 For by one Spirit are we all 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.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now hath Elohim set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?

1Co 12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
1Co 12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1Co 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
1Co 12:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
1Co 12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but YHWH hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
1Co 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
1Co 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
1Co 12:27 Now ye are the body of Messiah, and members in particular.

There is only one body of Messiah, may we all find our place, and realize that each part is important and that to function as a body, we need each other, we need to seek unity in the spirit, and be grateful for the part we have been given, as well as all our brothers and sisters. When we begin to esteem others more highly than ourselves, when we begin to put strive and gossip far from us...we begin to dwell in unity even as YHWH desires, and as a body we can move forward in unity against the wiles of the wicked one who would seek to separate us all.

Some food for thought:

Mat 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mat 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

The manner in which we judge others...is the manner YHWH will use to judge us. When we begin to "cast one another out" of what we think Yahushua's body is...then we also cast out ourselves. How grateful, how thankful I am for mercy! I desire mercy! You know, as we desire mercy for others...when that is the measure we mete out to others...isnt it truly grace that we in return receive mercy? When Yahushua is the head, the rest of the body realizes it's need for all parts to function properly. May we all be filled with that love and desire with Yahushua as our Head. HalleluYAH!

May the shalom of YHWH be with you, I love you all as part of Messiah's body!