Welcome to my first ‘blog’ everyone! You may have heard the story on the news this week of Rom Houben. Twenty three years ago a car crash left him totally paralyzed. He was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state.

Fox News reported:

‘But, in actuality, he was trapped in his own body the whole time with no way of letting friends and family know he could hear every word they were saying. The 46-year-old, who can now tap out computerized messages and read books on a device above his hospital bed, has revealed: "I screamed, but there was nothing to hear. All that time I literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt," he said. "I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me — it was my second birth. I want to read, talk with my friends via the computer and enjoy life. Now people know I am not dead."’

How frustrating! Trapped in a damaged, atrophied body did a full, cognizant, intelligent life desperately desire expression!

As tragic as this story is, for the last two thousand years the Life of Jesus has earnestly sought expression through His sometimes paralyzed and spastic body! We, individually and corporately, are His Body!

He has committed Himself to do His work only through His Body.

He wants to let people know He is not dead!

Are you ‘flowing’ with the Head today? Has lack of serving caused you to be atrophied? Are you doing your own thing causing His body to look ‘spastic?’

I imagine a church body, where each member is not only clearly connected with the Head, walking in His Love, but also connected to each other, building each other up in the Lord! Every joint supplying causing growth!

What are you contributing to His Body today?

Are you empowering or devouring His Body?

Are you a contributor or a consumer?

Lets live connected so that the world may know He LIVES!