Good morning. We are no longer to be children (from yesterday) but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head even Christ. We are not supposed to stay where we started in the Christian life. No one wants to take care of a 30-year-old baby. Sometimes people speak the truth, but not in love. They say they just want to be honest, but they say it in a hurtful manner. The truth may make you sorry for all that you sinned against God, but it is not meant to hurt you - rather to help you. Back to Christ: from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that with every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Like a puzzle where each piece's place matters, so it is with those in the body of Christ. Each member has his or her place that is necessary. If one piece of the puzzle is missing, it is not complete. If one member of the body is missing, it is not complete. We are all necessary for the growth of the body. Notice that it is to build itself up in love. Walk no longer just as the Gentiles (people of the world today) in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart. That truly is a description of the people of the world today. They try to reason out things. And if something does not fit their thought processes, they reject it. And of course Christianity goes completely opposite of the way they think things should be. After years of rejecting Christianity, their hearts become hardened. Father thank You that the reader has an important place in the body of Christ. Without him/her, it would be incomplete. He/she is no longer a child but a grown-up in Christ.

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