You Are Special!

You may not see much when you look at yourself in a mirror. You may wish that you were someone else. You may not like the way you look; but I am here to tell you: You are a one-of-a-kind!

When you look into the mirror, you are viewing an individual that is unlike any other that has ever been, is now or will ever be. You are special! GOD put special effort into you from the very moment of conception, fashioning you into the person He desired you to be. He placed His purpose into you; He wove His plan into every cell in your body. He was carefully considering every moment of your life as He delicately created and fashioned you in your mother’s womb.

Consider the words of the Psalmist for a moment: “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed” (Psalm 139:13-16 NLT).

It’s interesting to think that out of the billions and billions of people that have walked the face of the earth, you are totally unique. You have markings in your eyes, your fingerprints, your DNA, your tongue that are all totally unique to you. How does GOD do such marvelous works time and time again? Truth is, it is beyond human comprehension, but as science continues to move forward and make more discoveries the truth of the Psalmist become more real.

You may feel you have no real value. You may consider yourself to be worthless or useless, but GOD sees you in a whole different light. GOD doesn’t create junk; He doesn’t create useless objects; He creates beauty and purpose and that is what He created in you! You are special!

You are no accident. You are not a mistake. You are special and regardless of what others may think, you are of extreme value to your Heavenly Father! Quit trying to impress people. Quit trying to receive praise and acceptance from others. GOD’s praises and acceptance of you is constant. Live your life for Him. Discover your real reason for being and enjoy being who GOD made you to be!

Scripture Reading: “How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!” (Psalm 139:17-18 NLT).

Prayer: Father, too often I fail to recognize how special I really am to You! I begin to consider what others think about me and then I try to better myself so others see something more impressive in me, something that is not really me. Today, I want to please You! I want to make You the desire of my heart and I desire to only be found pleasing in Your sight. Continue shaping and making me, LORD, according to Your will and purpose!…in Jesus’ name…AMEN!

The Least Probable Choice!

Have you ever felt like GOD could never use someone like you? You look at your life, your past, where you’ve come from, the situations that you were brought up in and you simply feel like GOD could never use such an individual as you? You seem to be the least probable choice?

The Scripture relates a similar incident to us. It says: “After Jesse presented seven of his sons to him, Samuel told Jesse, ‘The Lord hasn’t chosen any of these’” (1 Samuel 16:10 CSB). Samuel the prophet had been sent by GOD to appoint GOD’s next choice for king of His people. The top seven sons were brought out, one of which should have surely been the right one, but none fit the bill.

The Scripture continues: “Samuel asked him, ‘Are these all the sons you have?’ ‘There is still the youngest,’ he answered, ‘but right now he’s tending the sheep’” (v. 11).

Jesse’s response was, “Sure, there’s still the youngest, the most insignificant, the least likely to be chosen out in the field tending to the family’s sheep.” Samuel told Jesse to go get him. When David arrived, the LORD told Samuel, “Anoint him, for he is the one” (v. 12). The one deemed least likely to be chosen was GOD’s choice!

No matter how insignificant you may feel today, in GOD’s eyes you are worth everything—you were worth the life of Jesus on a cross and you will continue to be of great value to Him always. He has a plan for you. You were born for a reason, you have purpose!

Stop trying to live up to the world’s standards. The world’s standards are often deceiving and misleading. Rather, set your sights on things above—on the things of GOD. Seek to live to please Him. Discover His purpose and plan for your life and live in the glory that He has for you! The world might see you as the least probable choice, but GOD calls you the one!

Scripture Reading: “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us” (Hebrews 12:1 NLT).

Prayer: Father, I have wasted too much time trying to please people, trying to be something according to this world’s standards only to discover I always seem to fall short. I ask You, Lord, to help me to reset my focus, to understand that my purpose is found in You. Help me to desire You because You first desired me and paid the price for my sins so I could become Your child. Although I seem to be the least probable choice, You see me as a great probability and for that and all You do for me, I say “Thank-You!”…in Jesus’ name…AMEN!