THE BODY OF CHRIST

And the church is his body; it is filled by Christ, who fills everything everywhere with his presence. ??“ Ephesians 1:23 (NLT)

            Jesus controls the universe, yet it is through the Church that He makes Himself known to the world. Jesus has given the Church the responsibility of being His representative on earth. All who belong to Christ also belong to His Church. All who belong to His Church are expected to stand for Christ in the home, the marketplace, the school, or wherever else we find ourselves at any given moment. Jesus speaks and acts through the Church corporately and also through individual members of the Church. When people meet a Christ follower they are encountering Christ Himself.

            When we claim to worship the Christ we are committing ourselves to allow Him to live out His life through our own. As the Church of Jesus Christ we are commissioned with the responsibility of being Christ to the world around us. This should be cause for deep personal examination. In what ways am I a representative of Christ to the people I am in contact with? What do they see in me that would remind them of Jesus? Are there some things that I need to change to better reflect the Christ that I worship?

PRAYER THOUGHT: Lord, as a member of Your Body the Church, I commit myself to represent You in the way You have commissioned me.