You are unique. And you are special. In a world of over seven billion people it might be difficult to believe that. But it's true. God created you as an individual. You may have been unplanned, but you are not an accident. You may even have had an illegitimate birth, but there is nothing random about you.
No human being is a chance happening. Sometimes we can look at human life as being no more than a biological outcome; but that's not what the Bible teaches. Every person has a human spirit which God alone can impart. For example, in Zechariah 12:1 we read, "Thus says the LORD, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him... " And in Ecclesiastes 12:7, Solomon says, "The dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it." Without God's involvement you would have no being. You owe your existence to "the Father of spirits" (Heb.12:9).
Furthermore, you were not mass produced. Just as no two snowflakes, or blades of grass, are alike, so there are no two identical human beings. God doesn't do carbon copies.
Manifold Grace
As it is in creation, so it is in the new creation. We each possess our own individual new creation identity. Whilst all believers are in Christ, yet we have a distinctiveness that underlines our individuality.
When speaking about our particular unique function in the body of Christ, Peter says that the grace of God is upon each one of us in a different way. He puts it this way, "As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God" (1 Pet.4:10).
That word 'manifold' means many-sided, or multi-faceted. The Church is like a diamond in God's hand. And each one of us is like shaped facets of that gem which reflects the kaleidoscope fullness of Christ in so many different ways. The Church will sparkle and gleam in all its stunning brilliance and diversity as, with the help of the Holy Spirit, we allow our uniqueness to be manifested.
There is nothing which stifles the variegated character of the grace of God like the pressure of uniformity. We have not been mass produced; churned out like sausages on a production line. Each of us is individually handcrafted by God. Someone once said, "When God created John Wesley, He destroyed the mold!"
Cults and control freaks insist on sameness. They don't understand that we can be diverse without being divisive. Therefore, they kill individuality and creativity. But where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty to be the true expression of who God has made us to be. Dear friend, don't be an echo of someone else; be a voice. Don't be a clone; be an original. Don't be fooled into believing that 'one size fits all'. Be the unique, special facet to God's gem that you are.
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