Your Self and Other Selves
People exist in different sizes, shapes, and colors. Their voices may be individually identifiable; their laughter is fully their own. Their talents are varied, and their personalities are quite unique.
Because of all that, every person is most hard, if not impossible, to copy. Like snow flakes, people are saturated with individuality.
Furthermore, every person is important in the world. That’s why war is so deplorable, even when necessary, and murder is a most heinous crime. That’s also the reason why many battles for human rights must be fought and won, through biblical guidelines.
Holy Scripture tells us that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made,” and that speaks not only of our physical frames and their functioning, but of every single, intricate aspect of our humanity also, which makes “me” me, and “you” you! Someone suggested that after God made you, He threw away the mould, never to use it again! Indeed, no one else is like you!
Yet, the greatest beauty, and wonder of it all is that God Himself made us each and every one. In the words of St. Paul, the apostle, recorded in Ephesians 2:10, “we are God’s work of art,” “God’s masterpiece.” Indeed, the crown of God’s creation is not the man Adam, per se, but the entire human race represented in him, since his name - Adam - means just that!
Therefore, every time you look in the mirror, be grateful for what you see. And I don’t mean the mirror itself, nor its frame, but your own self! Always remember that you are special, that you have been fashioned in the image and likeness of God. Herein lies our basic greatness, though in this case, it is something common to all human creatures. How wonderful that the trade mark of the divine designer is still in each of us, albeit marred and corroded by sin.
This fully applies to ourselves and others, and all else which our great God has wrought. In Acts 17:26, St. Paul reminds us that no flesh should glory or boast, because it was from one blood which all humans have descended.
Recognize the good in other selves, by paying value to them, by affirming them. As a contemporary author and preacher asserted, “God has no waste baskets. But for every person and for everything there is a purpose.” If you look for good things in other people, you will surely find them.
With all this in mind, each day rejoice at your own self; recognize that you are special; never lose sight of the fact that you and all fellow humans are beautiful creations of Almighty God. As the late Reuel Howe encouraged: “Choose to say ‘I am who I am and look forward to the I am that I am becoming’.”
Each individual can only be one’s own unique “self.” Thus, continue to be yourself, while letting God’s Holy Spirit prompt you into doing those things which are truly reflective of God’s image which you are, especially that image Christ came to restore in those He has redeemed, through the high price of His own life blood!
August 19th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Yeah,
God made all people,and every one is different.
I love the Love of God,and every morning I’m need to pray to Him.
Lord is my Father,and His love is too much large for my simple heart.
Thanks for the message.
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