Yesterday
I began my new assignment on the immune system as part of my studies to be a
Naturopath. I love to study and learn new things and I especially love it when
God begins to show me a parallel between the human body and spiritual truth.
Well, I had this expectation in my spirit yesterday and as I was reading I
could sense the spirit of wisdom and revelation lingering, ready to unlock some
truth to me. Over the next few hours as I read and answered assignment
questions I received this beautiful and timely word for the Body of Christ. I
awoke today with an excitement to share it.
The
one particular part of our immune response that I received revelation on was
the development of self-recognition. You see, our immune system provides
us with protection from ‘foreign invaders’ that seek to attack and destroy us
causing sickness, death and disease. Without this system, we would easily die
from invading pathogens. However, of equal importance is our system’s ability
to recognise which cells are ‘self’ and which cells are ‘foreign’.
There
is a very complex process that our body goes through to develop our immune
system to recognise ‘self’ so that we do not attack and destroy our own cells
(as seen in autoimmune diseases). There are two processes known as positive and
negative selection which ‘weed out’ immune cells that do not recognise self and
this is where I received revelation of what is happening in the body of Christ.
We
are in a process of developing recognition of ‘self’ as the children of God. And by self, I do not mean
just me as an individual. We are a body. One body. Jesus himself prayed that we
would be one as He is one with the Father (John 17:21). We are in a season
where we must embrace and recognize Christ in us and Christ in others and complete
Oneness as a body.
There
is a ‘positive and negative selection’ taking place which is eliminating those
cells in the body that try to attack ‘self’. We could call it self-sabotage.
See, what I didn’t tell you was that those immune cells that try to attack ‘self’
cells are destroyed. Yes your body completely annihilates these cells and
entire cells lines that are ‘out of line’.
Anything
we do or say that attacks ‘self’ is up for annihilation. Whether it is myself
or my neighbor, my friend or another church member, my children or a careless
driver, these ‘cells’ or thoughts or actions need to die. This is the process
of crucifixion. For a body to thrive, we must not attack ourselves. We must
rightly discern ‘foreign invaders’ and attack with full force, but we cannot
live with self-sabotage.
So I
am encouraged today to embrace the ‘weeding out’ process of any thoughts, ways
or actions that are attacking ‘self’ which includes myself and others. Let us remember
we are ONE BODY. Any thought that is less than love is not worthy to be
reproduced and not worthy to ‘serve’ the body. Every time we choose love
towards others and recognize that it really is our ‘self’ we are setting
ourselves up for greater service towards mankind.
I
pray that those who have ears to hear will hear what the spirit is saying
today. I pray for grace to confess our shortcomings and ‘crucify’ anything that
is less than love towards ourselves and others. I pray for an awakening to love
the ‘whole body’ and begin to recognize ourselves as one body.
Much
Love to you today
Rani
