Some years ago a friend said to me, ‘You know, someone else does not have to fail in order for you to succeed.’ This was a bit of a revelation for me because unknowingly that was exactly what I thought and it was obvious enough for my friend to say so to me.
My wrong thinking that success for me was at the expense of someone else’s failure was a lie that needed exposing. We are called to be a body working together not a set of spare parts competing for top spot. Our greatest and most fruitful moments come when we work together. If I am a finger I do not compete against the thumb but work with it to achieve something neither of us could do separately. There are two problems in most churches and certainly between churches and one is the confident people working independently and the other is those lacking in confidence feeling they have nothing to contribute. Both are wrong. The over confident need to start working better with others and the timid need to realise and start to operate in the gifting and function that God has placed in them.
The body needs all the parts operating well together to fulfil what God has called it to do. This is true unity. Others do not have to fail in order for us to succeed but if we are to succeed we need to work together in unity blessing what is going on and honouring one another. At the end of the day it is not about personal success or failure or even our church’s success or failure but all about God. Do we honour him with our words, our service and our attitudes? Do we bring him glory in what we do? We are the body of Christ. Let each one of us play our part and bring glory to him in all we do.
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