Thursday, March 12, 2020

day no. 15,116: the body politic

"The fingers have to know what the brain is feeling for, and the brain has to know what the fingers are actually touching." -- MCDP 1-2: Campaigning

The brain thinks on behalf of the entire body and the fingers feel on behalf of the entire body. The brain is not responsible for feeling, but it is responsible for listening to what the fingers are saying. The fingers are not responsible for thinking, but they must report to the brain what they're feeling if they want to benefit the body.


Romans 12:4-5
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

In the body, there are different parts with different functions and differing levels of responsibility and accountability. There is a hierarchy and it is not a result of inadequacy, inferiority or sin. The fingers report to the brain by design and not because of a broken system. To the contrary, it is the healthy body whose brain informs it fingers with direction and whose fingers report what they're finding back to the brain with alacrity.

1 Corinthians 12:12
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.

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