The Glorious Mystery

  The Glorious Mystery

                     One Body with Many Members

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable, we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 

1 Corinthians 12:12–27

God designed us to function as one unified whole. Isn’t it exciting that each one of us were created to be a facet of the collective Bride of Christ? 

 Colossians 1:16 says, (paraphrasing) “For in Him all things were created, and in Him, all things are perfectly fitted and held together.” 

That is what God is doing with His beautiful Bride. He is fitting us together in unity because He is the One holding us together. We, as His Bride, are His glorious mystery being revealed. What is this glorious mystery? It is Christ in us, the hope of glory. When the culmination of the ages converge in one moment, we as His Bride will be fitted perfectly together, and we will have the most beautiful gown ever designed or created. It will be from our unified white robes that our gown is being made. Our helmets, which we proudly wore because of the Blood of the Lamb and what Jesus did for us, will now be turned into an exquisite veil. Jesus will lift the veil from our eyes, and we will see who He is face to face. No longer seeing Him or one another with a veiled face, but seeing one another and Him in all Glory because of Him.

2 Corinthians 2:15-17, But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. For to God, we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To some, we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. Who is adequate for these things? For we do not market the Word of God for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

We, the Bride of Christ, are a unified body, so beautifully fit together and held together by God. The anointing we carry and the fruit we cultivate are His very fragrance. We are His Bride, and we are the purpose of His heart for such a time as this!

In closing:

Here are some “Kingdom Keys” to consider as we unite together as the Bride of Christ.

• Unity and “one anothering” is essential.

• Knowing that each one of us is a beautiful facet of Him.

• Cultivating our fruit.

• We can only usher in a harvest by doing it together.

• Have the liberty to move in the gifting God has given you. You are a hand, a foot, an eye, an ear; collectively, we are His Body and His Bride.

• Celebrating one another always!

 As we get closer to the imminent return of our King Jesus, may we, as His Bride, come together in one Spirit and in one accord. May we lock arms on the battlefield as His Bride with Army Boots, and may we in one voice cry out, “Maranatha, “Our Lord has come, and He is coming back again. Selah!

Lord Jesus, come quickly!

Blessings and Maranatha,

Joy Pharo