See Yourself As A Team Player!

Pastor Glen Stead – Prince Albert Family Church

These last months I’ve continued to travel to different parts of our great land, with an eye to touching every member. I’m amazed at the diversity, the differences in vision, and the intensity of spirit that I have found. Yet, I am fully aware that God sees us together as a body, with each of us a joint within that body. There are spiritual connections between us. The body as a whole can do nothing unless each one of its parts does its share. An individual part of a body can do nothing unless it is connected to the body.  In John 5:19, Jesus said that He could do nothing outside His connection to His Father. “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son does in like manner.” All spiritual action comes out of relationship. Our most important relationship is that with God Himself.

Each one of us must be fully dependent on God. We also have relationships with others. As Jesus was a b s o l u t e l y linked with His Father, so are we linked with Him and with one another.

Jesus denounces an independent spirit. He said, “the Son can do nothing of Himself.” He was not striving to do something particularly unique or original for its own sake, but to cooperate with His Father’s pattern. As a son, Jesus only acted “in like manner.” A man who understands covenant will see himself as a team player.

There is a certain spirit that one gains in seeing himself as a team player, and we need to allow God to develop that in us. It is essential to our future.