INGLORIOUS VOCATION?

INGLORIOUS VOCATION

Friday, July 05, 2013

An eye can't say to a hand, "I don't need you!" Or again, the head can't say to the feet, "I don't need you!" The opposite is true. The parts of the body that we think are weaker are the ones we really need.
The parts of the body that we think are less honorable are the ones we give special honor. So our unpresentable [Greek: inelegant] parts are made more presentable. However, our presentable parts don't need this kind of treatment. God has put the body together and given special honor to the part that doesn't have it. God's purpose was that the body should not be divided but rather that all of its parts should feel the same concern for each other. If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts share its suffering. If one part is praised, all the others share in its happiness.’ (GW 1Cor.12:21-26)
 
This morning’s waking thoughts …

  I will not for one second minimize the importance of the wonders of modern surgeons. Organ transplants, including heart and lung, or even bone transplants such as I received this year to prevent future handicapping. These scalpel-wielding men and women deserve recognition. I applaud them.

  But what of the blood testers and poop checkers, are these unseen lab techs any less contributors to health and wellbeing?

  Surgeons may and have received public acclamation, but, other than possible award of in-house maybe-framed certificate, when has local, national, or international media featured a lab tech that contributed to deliverance from bowel parasite or colon cancer?

  And then there’s the general public reaction to “I’m a surgeon.” as opposed to if they dare say so “I’m a lab technician that daily examines people’s excrement.”

  Does The Word have anything to say about this inconsistency? He certainly does: Read applicable Romans 12:1-3 and 1Corinthians chapters 12 & 13 and see there is no inglorious vocation.  EBB4