There is one body, and one Spirit,

“Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called.” (Ephesians 4:1)  Think about it. To what vocation were you called? Were you sent here to be a druggy, a thorn in someone’s side, a mischief maker? No. You were sent here perhaps with weakness toward those things, but your vocation is to overcome and  to find our way back home. That is the whole purpose to life, the reason we were born, the reason we are here is to this end and we were given gifts as well as weakness to accomplish this.

Paul says, ”There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling.”

Sometimes when Paul speaks of the body he is referring to the church, but I wonder if in this case if he isn’t also referring to the whole human race. When we speak of ‘the church’ we are usually referring to the group of people we associate with in the gospel. We seek to divide ourselves from the various groups of believers, from sinner or saint, from black, white or somewhere in between. The truth is we are all God’s children and we are all in this together.

“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in to you all, but unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ… And he gave some, apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some, pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints of the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ.” (Ephesians 4 :4 - 12)