(Romans 12:4-6 MSG) In this way we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets it’s meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around. The body we’re talking about is Christ’s body of chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. But as a chopped-off-finger or cut-off-toe we wouldn’t amount to much, would we? So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ’s body, let’s just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren’t.

In this passage I find a great release from striving. A nose doesn’t have to work real hard to function as a nose. It’s designed for that function. In contrast can you imagine an arm trying to function as an eye? It’s easy to be who God designed us to be, and we don’t have to be something else.

As a Christian we have a purpose that God has planned for us. He will lead us into that purpose if we stay close to him, and seek his direction. There is no more fulfilling life than the one we were meant to live.