Success and Failure Blog

We’ve seen the bumper stickers on cars: God Isn’t Finished with Me Yet, God Doesn’t Create Junk, etc. I suppose not everyone believes what they read; after all, we still don’t believe we’re worthwhile.

Well, the idea behind God creating humans was that we be different. We all have our own personalities, even if we’re born half of a set of twins. We also have our usefulness for the differences in our make-up whether it be physical, spiritual, or mental. We are worth more because we are not all the same.

God sees our beauty. We say we trust the Lord, but we don’t trust His divine opinion that we are each beautiful in our own right? Am I the only one who sees something wrong with that picture?

What good would the world be if we were all the same? There would be no motivation to better anything about ourselves. There would be no interesting friendships. What’s the point in having a friend if that friend is exactly like us in every way? Friends should be just alike enough to be able to relate to each other and yet just different enough to bring something of interest to the friendship. Without differences, there would be a boring, monotonous world with no reason for existence.

God appreciates our differences and loves us because of them and regardless of them. He knows our worth. He has a purpose and a reason for each wonderful design. What we see as flaws, He sees as a special quality.

The trick is to use our differences for the benefit of the Lord. We are to put ourselves to good use as He wants. We have a beautiful gift in each of us only if we choose to use that gift in the proper way; we must use it as it was meant to be used.

Big feet, crooked nose, fuzzy hair, stutter, fear of something? It’s not a problem for the Lord. It may be a problem for you, but only if you allow it to be.

The grace of our flaws is that we can also use them as our strengths. Pray about it. Wait for the answer. Be willing to see or hear the answer when it happens. Then go and make your differences useful!