The Body of Christ - what does it really mean?

At the beginning of February, I was praying about something and I was saying, “God, it’s hard sometimes to hear you – the disciples saw you in the flesh, they walked with you, you had a physical body that they communicated with, but you don’t have that anymore------”And right there he said, “I have a physical body.” It felt like my tongue tripped and fell flat in my mouth. I was speechless. We refer to ourselves all the time as ‘the body of Christ’. But when He said it, it was so different. I was just quiet, as I really took in the magnitude of what he had said.

Now that we have this virus in our country, this word came back to my mind. I thought to myself - if Jesus were here, he would not be huddled at home, isolating. He would be out there, laying his hands on the sick, and they would be made well. If we are his physical body, is that not what we should be doing? I thought about that verse that says, "they will have a form of godliness, but they will deny its power" - I wonder if that is our generation. Then I thought about Jesus saying, "but when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" I used to wonder how, after seeing the miracles that Jesus performed, the disciples could sometimes still ask some dumb questions, and still not believe - but now I understand. Because even after the miracles I've seen during my life, do I have the courage to walk into a hospital full of virus victims? No. Even though Jesus says, "these signs will follow them who believe...." But what I know is this - in our weakness, he is strong. I believe that if he wanted to task us with doing that, he would anoint us for the task - and when the Holy Spirit comes upon us, which of us is powerful to resist the God we have surrendered to?