Members or…. , oh
well, members?
I wanna share with you
some C.S.Lewis wisdom. Most of us heard about him, and many may have already
read some of the books. Maybe all of us have already seen The Chronicles of
Narnia, a movie made after one of his books. He is a tremendous person and
truth to be told if I were to pick a celebrity to meet it would be either him
or Beethoven. Coming back to words of wisdom…
I was reading today on
my way to work one of his books – essays actually – about how some people,
Christians, can see the spores on a fern but miss the elephant next to them. One of his ideas really caught my attention
and made me think. He was talking how Paul’s meaning to the word “members” was
really “organs”. Because as Christians, that is what we need to be to each
other – members, so we can all complete the body. But he was explaining how the
world took this word and emptied it of this meaning. Now we say I am a member
of a band, or a club, or a church … and what we are really saying is that “I am
just the same as all the others in this class”. The world wants to make us just
units in a class when God actually wants us to be unique, each having its
unique function in the body of Christ.
Lewis continues with
the presentation of a perfect example of “members” in God’s-way-of-meaning-it:
the family. All the members of a family are unique … and all together they form
the whole. You cannot consider them units of a class because they are not the
same: children, and parents, and grandparents and so on so forth. No wonder
that the family is the cell of a church. No wonder that this cell needs to be
healthy in order to give a healthy body.
Bottom line to all
this is that I don’t want to be just a unit. The world actually has so little
to offer me, because God did not create me to be ordinary. He has created every
one of us to be extraordinary. And this is the saying of another great
man. The problem with us we are so used
to be units that we have lost the touch with the extraordinary. Even I cannot
pick myself up and snap out of the “unit” thing. It’s just so unbelievable how
world can tie us in an invisible cage and we happily stay there without
protesting.
I keep seeing this
everywhere on Internet: be the change you want in the world. And it’s not that
I don’t agree. I do! But it’s so used that our heart cannot feel it as it should.
So will just come out and say it:
I am so tired of being
mocked by the devil and I am so tired of just being a unit. I want to seriously
believe God when He tells me he has a special place for me, where my uniqueness
and my talent and my skills can be used to help the others. Because, in the
end, it’s not what we do for ourselves that counts, but what we do for others.
Anyone else?
