We were shaped by God.. each one of us. We are not an accident, and infact we are more on purpose than we can ever realize. As God made the universe, he made one of us... for all time... in any place... just one. He put us in the time of his choosing and shaped us in the way of his liking.
Together we represent his image. All to often we struggle with being different... sticking out... but that is exactly what we are designed to do. We each individually represent some aspect of God's image, that when viewed together paints a picture of who he is and how much he loves, to the world. The world desperately needs to see this picture. You are a necessary part of it. Don't hide your part, or the image may not be complete.
1st Corinthians 12: 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
So don't sell your soul on the alter of cool... being just like everyone else is a betrayal of the awesome beauty God uniquely fashioned in you!
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