Imaged

"By one Spirit were we all baptized into one body," 1 Corinthians 12:12.

We, all, lots of parts: Jews, Greeks, free men, slaves, males, females, circumcised, uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian. And so on. Many more parts: black, white, millennial, boomer, Hispanic, Hmong, Chinese, Ukrainian, Ghanaian, Mexican, American, Arab, Zambian, Saudi, Maori, Tlingit, Chilean, Dane, Israeli, Tamil, Cambodian, Filipino, Samoan, Guarani, Navajo. And so on, ad infinitum, in all the many ways human beings like to part themselves out from each other. Into the one body: Christ. Christ died for all. All baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. No longer live I for me, Christ lives. No longer live for many selves, but for one Christ. A new nature. Here. And where is here? Hidden with Christ in God. Where? Buried with Christ. Risen with Christ. One with Christ. Here. All baptized into one body. Here. Christ is all, and in all. 

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ we give thanks for becoming imaged to the one God who created us all. Transformed, celebrate today, with a brother or sister, for new birth into One, effected by one Spirit.