“Vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
and not holding fast to the
Head.”
COLOSSIANS 2:18,19
Even
in the natural realm we know that a healthy physical body does not make
decisions or take any action apart from the head. It is the head (i.e.,
the mind) that determines what the body will do. Indeed, the body
cannot properly function apart from the head. When the body is disabled
due to injury or disease it means either the body is unable to carry out
the instructions
of the head or the head is unable to give instructions to the body. We
rightly observe this as something that needs medical attention.
Were
the head to be separated from the body the result is immediate death.
Equally obvious is the fact that the head can take no action without
involving the body.
We
must not force this metaphor to an extreme and suggest that Jesus is
unable to do anything without us; but we can certainly say that Jesus,
as the Head of the Ekklesia, will not do anything without involving His
Body.
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