Got to thinking about our individuality today. Snowflakes, leaves, human voices. It started when a friend of mine–a very intelligent, artistic, and multi-talented friend of mine–texted me about passing her GED. She’d never been able to graduate from high school due to extenuating family challenges. (And yet you’d never know this, since she’s so well-read, self-educated, and accomplished.)
Our texts went like this:
Her: I passed my GED with flying colors!
Me: Of course you did. You’re smart.
Her: I am an overachiever with low self esteem. So I surprised myself! Lol
Me: You have no reason, on any level, for having low self esteem. You’re gifted and exceptional. But it’s often the people like that who have low self-esteem, simply because they’re different. Normal people don’t do special things.
Me: Dang. That was good. I should blog it.
Her: Thank you :)!
Her: Blog it!
So here I am, blogging it. ‘Cause face it: you’re abnormal, right? Don’t look at me in that tone of voice. Of course you are, because you’re an original creation of God.
Snowflakes. Leaves. Human voices…
You were born with your own unique face, personality, and set of talents. But you feel inadequate when you compare your own unique characteristics with others’. “She’s taller than me, more petite; better at math, better at English, skinnier, more shapely,” whatever.
…but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise–2 Corinthians 10:12
It’s impossible to compare the quality of two original paintings by the same artist. Monet created both Water Lilies and Sunrise, and yet they can never be measured against each other for superlatives. One’s not better than the other; they’re just different. Like you and me.
God, the master Artist, created each of us, individually.
For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written; the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.–Psalm 139: 13-16.
But God not only created us individually, he also created us as individuals. So you’re not normal, and neither am I. There is no normal, there’s only you, me, and all those other weirdos, each of us with his or her own special beauty, significance and purpose. So be yourself and be proud of it. You’re God’s original.
David
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Encouraging Word 
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