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Am I of any use to Christ?

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.  For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. 1 Corinthians 12:12-14

            Yes, you have a role in the body in the Christ.  Paul in 1 Corinthians used an analogy of the foot looking at the hand and thinking it was of no use because it wasn’t a hand (or an ear feeling useless because it wasn’t an eye).  Sometimes we feel this way because we look at other people doing great work and think we’re not any good.

            But hands need feet and ears need hands.  We’re working together.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 1 Corinthians 12:27

            Some people are superstars in the kingdom of God, but that doesn’t make other people useless.  Everyone has some part in impacting a group of people, large or small.  Some are more visible than others, but it doesn’t make them any less useful.