Carefully Placed

Understanding the fact that God has a single purpose but He has chosen to use the variety at His disposal to accomplish it is crucial.

As a member of the body of Christ, God has deposited diverse gifts into diverse vessels so that at the end of the day all glory will belong unto Him once His goal is accomplished. Then it is important that less attention should be placed on title, positions and hierarchy. Apostle Paul used the analogy of the different body parts to show us the importance of each one of us within the body of Christ. The ears can not be jealous of the eye, neither can the feet of the head. Why? Regardless of how carefully and meticulously woven in complexity the brain is with the head, it can not do the work of the feet that are so close to dirt.

1 Corinthians 12: 3-18 The Message

^12-13 "You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body. It’s exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain—his Spirit—where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves—labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free—are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive.
^14-18 I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn’t just a single part blown up into something huge. It’s all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, “I’m not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don’t belong to this body,” would that make it so? If Ear said, “I’m not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don’t deserve a place on the head,” would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it".

In a family unit called the home, the man has his own functions that his innate qualities and giftings allow only to carry out, so also does the woman. Ever since I have been married and I observe a few things God has given my husband to do,  I thank God for his life, I learn from him but I do not try to do things to compete with him in order to prove a point. As a woman, my husband blesses God for the grace of God upon my life and my abilities without any need to compete, discount or put me down.

Have you ever try to understand why spouses, friends, brethren and other people come into ourlives? There are people in our lives for reasons and seasons. It is important to understand the different seasons in ourlives so we can maximize the importance of the reasons why we have individuals around us. Learning from our mistakes, looking forward to apply life lessons ahead of us add to the growth,experience and maturity we attain.

I am very important in the lives of those God has surrounded me with and I live everyday to ensure that I do my bit. Let us appreciate what God has created us for, and let us focus solely on that without looking into another man's field. No matter how beautiful and expensive a pair of shoes are, if they are not your size, they are bound to disgrace you one of two ways; if they are too small they will hurt you or if they are too big they will make you fall, you will be luck if you do not lose a tooth in the process...lol

Ensure you occupy where God has carefully placed you and bring out your very best. God has given you your wife/husband for a purpose, put in your very best into their lives so that God will acknowledge your good work and promote you. If there is work to be done in your spouse's life, ask God for grace and commence the work and before you know it, you both will look back and rejoice in the fruit of your labor. You have been carefully placed, invest your best into where you are now.

Shalom!