--We All Are On a Journey / As We Travel, Let Us Edify One Another In the Faith ~~

--SUFFERING TOGETHER

--"If one part suffers, every part suffers with it."
--(1 Corinthians 12:26) --

--[PLEASE READ/ 1 CORINTHIANS 12:14–26]

~~In 2013, seventy-year-old James McConnell, a British Royal Marine veteran, died. McConnell had no family, and staff from his nursing home feared no one would attend his funeral. A man tapped to officiate McConnell’s memorial service posted a [social media] message: “In this day and age it is tragic enough that anyone has to leave this world with no one to mourn their passing, but this man was family. . . . If you can make it to the graveside . . . to pay your respects to a former brother in arms, then please try to be there.” Two hundred Royal Marines packed the pews!

These British compatriots exhibited a biblical truth: we’re tied to one another. “The body is not made up of one part, but of many,” Paul says (1 Corinthians 12:14). We’re not isolated. Just the opposite: we’re bound in Jesus. Scripture reveals organic interconnection: “If one member suffers, all the members suffer” (v. 26 ). As believers in Jesus, members of God’s new family, we move toward one another into the pain, into the sorrow, into those murky places where we would fear to go alone. But thankfully we do not go alone.

Perhaps the worst part of suffering is when we feel we’re drowning in the dark all by ourselves. God, however, creates a new community that suffers together. A new community where no one should be left in the dark. Let's stand together, brothers and sisters.
-- We need each other in this fight of faith, as we journey to the Celestial City with our Lord Jesus. ~~

--ODB/WC~--"The God Who Stays" // Matthew West ~<https://youtu.be/flJF1fMvz5Y>
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