I Am Unique!

         Sometimes we hear the expression, “Wow. After they made you, they broke the mold.” We use the expression to state that a person just did something different or funny and then to say that there is no one like them. It is true. You can say it about every person on the earth. We are all unique. I recall how interesting it was in my early teen years to discover that everyone had a different finger print. I couldn't imagine how that was possible. When a person has a telephone number and then cancels their service, that number can be reassigned to a different person. That, however, is not true with finger prints. When a person dies their finger prints are retired also. God doesn't reassign the finger prints to some new baby that is going to be born. The uniqueness of a person goes even further. The iris in our eyes are all different. Then, we find out that our DNA is also different. I also learned from our Son in Law that trees also have unique DNA. We can all say, “Well, there is no one like me.” Psalm 139:1-3 says, “ O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.  Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.   Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art accqainted with all my ways.”

        Long before we discovered our own uniqueness God already knew it and had written it down in the Scriptures. God knows each and everyone of us individually. We cannot fathom the magnitude of His greatness let alone His ability to know about each and every member of His family. We can close our eyes and still distinguish the voices of our children and grand children as we see the differences in each of them but just think how great it is that God can no the difference between each and everyone of us. I am amazed at the story of the Lord Jesus Christ and the instructions given to Peter to catch a fish and then to find in the mouth of the fish a piece of money that was to be used for tax purposes. What is the likelihood of catching the first fish and finding the coin in the mouth of that fish when you think of all of the fish in the sea of Galilee at that given moment? There are no coincidences with God no matter how impossible it may seem to us just as it is so amazing to notice our own differences. Since God knows even our finger print and the iris of our eyes and the DNA that makes us who we are, then is He going to take care of us in all of our troubles and in all of our failures and in all of our distress and discouragement? Not one person was ever thrown away on the trash pile during its creation. All were perfect in what God had intended. When we create something in the basement workshop or out in the shed and it gets to a point where a cut is made too deep or too far, we may have to throw it away and begin again. Not so with God and His working in the lives of His creation. So we are special. We are different and we are a part of God's handiwork. The sad part of all of this is that many souls of God's creation have rejected Him. We had a cat that we loved very much and provided all that that cat needed. One day, however, the cat was afraid and jumped out the carrier and has never been seen again. The following week the temperatures went dangerously low and the cat probably did not survive. As much as we provided for the cat, we couldn't make it stay. Unfortunately, many people are that way and cannot see that God desires all to be saved and for all to love and worship Him. That same group of people, as unique as they are, cannot see the handiwork of the Creator in their own fingerprints and so run away from God as fast as they can. Some will never realize their own destiny until it is too late and so will be cast into the Lake of fire according to the Book of Revelation. The result is that they have fled the safety of their Creator for the things of the world. Pray for those who are close to you from your contacts of family and friends. Pray for those who do not know their Creator. Praise God today that you are unique.