I have never realized how important my thumb is on my left hand! That is until the other day when I cut a chunk off the top of mine. You see, I’m not a morning person which should probably let me know that I don’t need to play with knives too early in the morning. But on this day, before the sun came up, I was fixing my lunch to take to school and I sliced right into my finger. Now, I won’t overdramatize…it bled for a few minutes and I had to use some Neosporin and a couple of band-aids to get it all doctored up. And I survived and was only running about 5 minutes late. Anyway, it wasn’t until I was going through my normal day’s routine that I realized how many things I use my left thumb for…for buttoning and zipping my pants, for opening a ketchup packet, for closing a Ziploc bag, for typing, and for heaven’s sakes, for texting. For so long, I have taken this body part for granted and look at how useful and necessary it is.
As I pondered all of this, I was taken to 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. This is where Paul tells the church that they are one body and that they are each different parts of that body. He says that “God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as He wanted them to be” (v. 18). So, God has made some of us to be the head, and some to be the neck, and some to be the arm, and some to be the feet, and He has even given someone the job of being the left thumb. And like my left thumb, this may seem like one of those jobs you don’t really want to have…one that doesn’t seem really important most days. However, as I have learned this week, my left thumb is super important and I can’t wait to have mine back to normal. So whether you’re the left thumb or the toe nail on the pinky toe, you have a special job to the body and it’s a job that only you can do. So let’s get out there and do our job in the body of Christ because God has lots of work to do through us!
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