We’re all part of the same body, different skills and purposes, but designed so that “the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” We all need each other, if we’re going to effectively imitate Jesus.
The Psalms remind us of the complexity and majesty of God’s creation, and how reliant every living thing is on the continued care of God, “when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.”
We have been created, both individually and as a community, to serve God. It is up to us to have the same attitude as the Psalmist when he wrote “I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.”