Let me laugh first.
LOL.
Hahahaha.
ROFL.
OK, done.
Isn't it a provocative way of title that I just put? Oh of course, it is. First I thought about making it in Indonesian, which the title would have said,"Kristus adalah Kepala, dan aku adalah pantat." That. just. sounds. gross. Pantat? Uh uh. If that kind of title would not have me banned from any christian forum, I don't know what will. Second attempt, I guess using French is somewhat classy and would wrap it in a fancy way:"Le Christ est la tête et je suis le rectum". Oh well, the rectum is still showing. Whatever. I'll stick to the first one then.
The topic about body of Christ has been one of the conversations my friends and I have had these days. We all came from different backgrounds. Catholic, protestants, evangelicals, and even Jehovah's Witness - yup, you read it right, Jehovah's Witness-. Each one of us feels proud that we are the body of Christ (but of course it has to befollowed by the term and conditions of our own church). But when I offered them a question about being Christ's rectum, they were all staring at me in disbelief.
It's just a simple logic, actually. Christ is the head. We are His younger brothers, adopted by the Spirit of the Father, through His death and ressurection, so in the and we are His body. Make senses? It does. The problem starts when everyone wants to grab a function within in His body. You can hear we are all screaming to each other,"Oh, I'm His hand!", "I'm his feet!", "I'll become His thumb!", and some others arrogantly confidently claim,"I'm His index finger!". Yeah, right. If you're His index finger, I'd be His middle finger. Nah, I'm just kidding.
But, still. The idea of His body is still largely unknowned among us. Well, at least amongst me and my friends. We just want to do something delightful for Him. We want to be recognized. We want to feel meaningful. On the other hand, the law of the kingdom of God is clear: For he who is least among you all will be great (Luk 9:48). Christinanity still struggles for this basic idea of the law. We never seem to understand it. We never seem to grasp it. It's just against our human nature. That's why we always wrestle with it.
So when my friends and I went further and deeper regarding the issue, we found ourself more clueless. We kept coming back to the law that Jesus has mentioned: Wanna be great? Good. But first you have to be the smallest thing. You wanna be clean and smell good? Good. But first you gotta go down and get dirty.
I know, most of us are naturally assholes, jerks, scums, filthy, you name it. That is the one and only reason Jesus came. His grace is for bad people. So if you never do and feel bad ever in your life, Jesus is not for you. But alas, the journey doesn't stop there.
Paul in his letter to the church in Corinth said: "We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now (1 Cor 4:13)" I could imagine when the Corinthians have read his letter, they'd probably be crying, or even worse, going berserk. Their lovely teacher and apostle admitted that he himself is the filth of the world, the offscouring, the scum because of the gospel. If he truly is like what he said, what about them?
Regardless of all stains that have appeared in the history of Christianity, we all believe that greatest Christian people started from the lowest part. Humiliated, rejected, and sometimes death is the final destination for their faith. Look at Jesus. He's one, the biggest one. Then Peter, two. Then Paul, three. Then John. The number keeps growing. The world silently keeps counting.
The Christ is the Head, and you and I are the Rectum.
And no, I'm not laughing now.
What do you think?