You Are Not the Only One

In being a part of His Body, for all the pain and frustration and limitation it can cause, it is the only way to receive God’s life and salvation - and the only way we become a conduit of that life and salvation to the world.

You were right when you said that in this world we would have trouble, because that thing was a lot of trouble. But the weaker I was in that thing, the harder I leaned on you. And the harder I leaned on you, the stronger I discovered you to be. It never would have happened had you

By discovering the true identity of Jesus, we will find ours as well. This cannot be overstated. He is the One who knows all of a man’s sorrows and hopes. The Scriptures say that Jesus identifies with us: Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it’s logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By emb

It is infinitely preferable to believe that you and the boy are special than to accept that going around feeling lonely and misunderstood and out of sync with other people is just what it feels like to be a person. To be alive. That this is what life is like for everyone.

Miraculously, the church, the “body of Christ,” is a community in which each member is connected to all others just as different organs in the body are connected to and serve one another (1 Cor. 12:12–31).