- 1 Corinthians 12:25-27 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
While praying the predawn prayer I told God and the Holy Spirit: “People say that everyone is different. Their facial features are slightly different. But in reality, except for special people, most people are each person is the same as the next. So there is no need to think about people in a complicated way.” I prayed in this way while talking with Them about people.
However, while I was praying, the Holy Spirit told me about this: “That is not true. Don’t think simply that ‘people are the same.’ Even though each person seems to be the same as every other person, each person is vastly different. If you think simply that all people are the same based on what you see of their outside, you will be unable to handle each person and you will also fail to manage lives properly. As a result, you will end up losing lives.”
The Almighty God created human beings as ‘individuals.’ I will explain this in way that is easy to understand. Airplanes, trains, cars, and bicycles are all modes of transportation. However, each are completely different. A knife, a saw, and a plane are all tools made of steel. However, each are completely different. People too. Structures of their faces and bodies are the same, right? Everyone has two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two ears, two arms, two legs… in this way, their structures are the same. However, what they think is different. Therefore, even though their structures are the same as others, each person is completely different.
Even if people live in the same nation and in the same house, each person is different because what they think is different. On the surface, it seems like that person’s thoughts are no different than yours. However, when you look at what they do according to their own free will, what they do is different and what they hope for and pursue are completely different. You tell that person you will give them a golden watch as a gift because you personally want a golden watch. However, the other person will say that he doesn’t want that. In this way, the thoughts are different. The things they want, the things they hope for, and the things they pursue are different. In other words, ‘their individuality’ is different.
Before God, each person’s body exists according to individuality. Also, they are individually different in their missions too. Each person is separate before the Lord in their individual ways. In other words, the Lord is ‘the head’ and each person is ‘separate’ as individual body parts. Although each body part are separate, they exist as one with the head as the center. They are separate but one. They are one but separate.
People have the same ‘structure of faces and bodies’ but each person’s ‘facial shape and body shape’ are individually different. In this way, ‘thoughts’ are different in their individual ways. What they are born with are each different. And accordingly, the way the Almighty God raises each person is also different. The way God uses each person is also different.
Even brothers born from the same mother’s womb each have different thoughts and different daily life. Even if people live in the same family and eat the same food, each person’s thoughts are different, actions are different, the positions each takes action from are different, and the work each person does is different. This is because their ‘individuality’ is different and their ‘path of life’ is different. Even if they are brothers, even if they live in the same family and live in the same nation, if ‘what they think, what they do, the positions they take action from, and the work they do’ are not different, then all people living in the earthly world cannot exist.
If everyone thinks and does the same things and does the same work from the same positions, then they cannot exist. It is because each person exists as ‘individual entities’ that everyone exists freely while fulfilling their own hopes. When you look at people in general, you say that “All people are similar.” When you look at them physically, that is true. But when you look at them spiritually, you see them in detail. Therefore, you will know that each person’s ‘individuality’ is completely different.
When you read Isaiah 11:6~8, God speaks about the ideal world and says that when ‘the Messiah sent by God’ comes to this world, the sheep, goats, calves, vipers, and lions will all become one centering on him. It means that people who are like sheep, people who are like goats, people who are like calves, people who are like snakes, people who are like lions, and all the unique individuals will become one in the Lord. Jesus referred to his followers as ‘sheep’ and said he was ‘a shepherd.’ Consider the sheep. Even sheep within the same pen are present in their own individual ways. Some sheep are drinking water, some sheep are eating, some sheep are sleeping and some sheep are playing. When a shepherd guides his sheep, he herds them together as one and puts them into a safe pen. Then he lets each of them exist within the pen according to their individuality.
The same is true with lives. They are brought together as one in the Lord but within that, each person is entrusted with missions according to their individuality, and are led according to each person’s individuality. All of you should realize this and handle ‘lives’ accordingly. Then you will manage lives well and handle lives well.
Today I gave the message – Although this person seems the same as others, if you look carefully spiritually, each person is different in their individuality. Even if they are spouses living together in the same house and even if they live only one day, each person lives doing the work they must do in their own positions. They live while eating differently and thinking differently. This is true with all people of the world. Only thing is that there is one Will centered on the Lord, who is the head. Therefore, I urge you to center on the Lord but do your work and missions in your individual ways, take action as one with everyone, and fulfill ‘the Will’!