In prayer this morning the Holy Spirit highlighted the mannequin in the spare bedroom of our house to me. It has been in this same room for over two years, I pray in the same place every day, but today the Holy Spirit had me take notice of this mannequin and said to me, “Either the head is neglecting the body so it is breaking down or the body is rejecting the head, which is why it is breaking down.” Immediately I knew this was a nod to Ephesians 5.

Ephesians 5:25-30 says “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body.”

If a husband neglects his wife she will break down and not operate by design. He as the head sends messages to her that either cause her to be built up, cherished, nourished or the neglect causes a breakdown in her and the marriage. The same is true with the church, Christ is the perfect head sending messages of life, hope, joy, peace, grace, mercy, all the things to us as His body, but if we reject the messages He is sending to us, we as the body of Christ will break down.

Neglect causes a breakdown in the marriage and reject causes a breakdown in the church. Both neglect and reject breakdown what the Lord intended to be built up. It is fun to be called the head of something, but it is a whole other thing to actually take the responsibility of being the head. And we as the church are the body of Christ, we must stop rejecting the messages our head, Christ is sending to us, for He is trying to build us up, make us inside strong, establish us in truth, so we can operate by design, but we must receive not reject what He is saying to us. #morningmusings