Matthew 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

It wasn’t that long ago that the media warned us of great danger. That issue hasn’t been resolved. The media moved on to the next more important danger. What are we going to do about this danger? We haven’t seen answers to the last great danger. A few days pass and now there is yet another threat even more deadly.

Do you feel like a ping pong ball sometimes? I do. I get smacked around from one side to the next. Force and direction, spin after spin until I am spinning out of control. Sooner or later I will fly off the handle. That is the nature of the ping pong ball, ever increasing spin until it cannot any longer be controlled.

I still care about the victims of the first “grave danger”. Nothing is reported and I am sure nothing has changed. I do not have the resources or authority to change that situation. So what am I to do?

In Matthew 24 Jesus is answering His disciple’s questions about the end times. He states many signs and wonders. He lays out a timeline, prophesies, signs of the times and says nothing about what to do about any of it until verse 45.

Give them meat in due season.

The Lord has given us a calling and authority over our portion of His Kingdom. All He asks is for us to be faithful to what He has asked to do in our portion. Nothing else is asked of us.

Tis the season of the harvest. Take eat.

Matthew 19:11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

One of the aspects of fellowship is unity, finding agreement. The building of community is important, but we are still after all individuals. Jesus treats us as individuals and does not put the same demands on all His servants.

I see things a certain way. Can all be expected to see it my way? No. God has given me a calling and certain gifts according to His purpose and design. Only those who share my calling and purpose should be expected to understand as I understand, as I receive it.

There is however a tendency to share in hopes of discovering others who possess the same calling. It stops us from feeling alone in a crowd. We must be careful not to put on others things which they are not meant to receive.

Basics, fundamentals, those things which are foundational truths which all must share are enough to maintain fellowship. In my past history I have witnessed divisions with a church body based on the gifts and callings. Cliques formed within the church body may be left over tendencies from high school, but they have no part in the body of Christ.

As individuals we bring a part of Christ to the body which is unique in treatment, but it is still Christ, it is still the power of the Holy Spirit working to serve the whole. We are all needed.

1 Corinthians 1:24-26 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked. That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

The same care, love the common denominator.