Just Be Marvelous

            I am learning to love being unique. That’s right, I’m unique. So are you. I didn’t always know how unique I am. In fact, for most of my life I’ve considered myself to be quite average, whatever that means. I actually went to great lengths to remain average, to look and to act like the majority of the population. Yet, I knew deep inside that I was in fact unique.

What does it mean to be unique? The definition of unique according to Merriam Webster dictionary is: used to say that something or someone is unlike anything or anyone else

• very special or unusual
• belonging to or connected with only one particular thing, place, or person.

I spent a good portion of my life playing a futile game called self-comparison. It’s futile because it has no end and there is no winner. It snuffs out dreams and slams the door in the face of possibilities. Worst of all, it’s a direct insult to God Himself.

If I asked you to draw a picture of what you think God looks like, I might get a puzzled look from you. I think I know what I would draw. I would draw a picture of me using the gifts He gave me to express myself to the world. As a man created in God’s image, when I use the gift he placed in me to express myself to the world, they get a glimpse of God!

There are over 7 billion humans on planet Earth. Not a single pair are identical. Even identical twins are not exactly alike. When we fail to see how unique we are, we rob ourselves and we rob those around us of our unique expression. The Apostle Paul understood this too:

“To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan – a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things. The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms.”  (Eph. 3:8-10 NET)

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”  (Eph. 2:10 NKJV)

We are his workmanship. A unique work of art!

Such amazing freedom has come to me since I got out of the self-comparison trap. I invite you get out too.

“I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are your works, and that my soul knows very well.”  (Psalm 139:14)

You’re marvelous! He said so. Don’t try to be anybody else. Just be your marvelous self! You have something we need to see.

Uniquely marvelous,

Kevin