A Limb of Christ

The following is from Handley Moule's From Sunday to Sunday:

"We may conceive of conditions under which His [Christ's] love might work by direct personal acts of volition only, dispensing with all intermediary channels . . . But granting all this, none the less does the Lord actually, in the vast field of fellowship with our human lives, need and use us as His limbs.
All through the story of Redemption it is so. 

"In the Old Testament days He walked by Joseph, as His feet, to prepare deliverance in Egypt, and by Moses, as His feet, to lead up His people in triumph out of it.

"By Nathan, as His lips, He wakened David from his death-sleep, and by Isaiah, as His lips, He promised Himself to be the Lamb of God.

"In New Testament times He 'began to do and to teach (Acts 1:1) in His own person, BUT these words plainly imply that He went on to do, and went on to teach, through Peter, and John, and Paul, and Luke, and Aquila.

"Even so to this hour, You, Christian disciple, are the Lord's limb not only for the sake of your life but for the sake of His work.  By you He has action to do in this world of sin, and grief, and need.

"Through you He has to speak to human ears, or to succor human lives; through you to seek the lost, to support the weak, to visit the forgotten, to lead the blind.

"Wherefore, you limb of Christ, who are also His loving and believing brother, 'yield thyself unto Him, as one that is alive from the dead, and thy limbs as implements of righteousness unto God' (Rom. 6:13)."