Having two dogs changes the way you take the dogs for a walk. I decided it was in my best interest to purchase a double leash so that Max and Marci are fit together on one leash that midway connects to become two leads, one for each dog. Some people smile and giggle when they see Max and Marci because the two dogs are so very different, but despite their differences visible and not visible, they walk well on that double dog coupler.
In Colossians we read about being “properly fixed and fit together” because of what Jesus did on the Cross. Because of what He did, we are no longer “broken and dislocated.” We become part of One body. Paul wrote, “The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ” (1 Corinthians 12:12 NLT).
So how then do we fit together with others as part of this One body? How do we work together with others in the Church? We are fit together because of Christ. We are fit together through Christ. We can work together because of Christ. We all have One Spirit. If things do not seem to fit so well, if things are crumbling around you, if you are not hearing “vibrant harmonies,” perhaps the presence of the Spirit is being drowned by man. With Him alone we can fit together.
“He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.” – Colossians 1:18-20 [MSG]
Tania Gutekunst 