Answer: God wants the body to use all of its different gifts, according to the grace given us, (verses 6, 7 and 8).
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There is no false modesty that denies the existence of gifts or refuses to use them. To do so is to fail the rest of the body, making it weak and ineffective. The full functioning of the body happens at ALL times and in ALL conditions. It is not reserved for special occasions. Each member of the body uses its gifts DAILY, glorifying God by using the talents, or gifts, that each member of the body has been blessed with by the grace of God.
1 Corinthians 12:14-27 describes the full functioning of the body in this way:
"Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as He wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I don't need you!' And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don't need you!' On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it."
