HSD: Only YOU are YOU

Come here. Come take a walk with me.

I want you to consider a smart phone and all of its features and capabilities.

In partnership with artificial intelligence, a smart phone can do just about anything.

One can use it to accomplish almost any task.

However, while it can connect you to third parties who can help satiate physical hunger, can you speak to your AI chat and get the phone to zap you a meal?

In realizing your phone cannot physically cook for you, would you deem it worthless?

Do you feel any differently about your device? Or have you, in full rationality, considered that it just was not made to do that?

This is what we look like to God when we assess the gifts of others to bring shame to ourselves. This is the futility of comparison.

You prefer the features of another person. You were not made to look like that.

You prefer the skills of another person. You were not built to perform in this sense.

You prefer the disposition of someone else. You were not meant to carry yourself in that way.

You were fearfully and wonderfully made, my sibling-in-Christ. (Psalm 139:14)

You must ask the person who created you what all features, skills, strengths, weaknesses, and demeanors were meant to accomplish. You must ask your creator to figure out the power that lies in you being YOU. You must ask your creator who you are to make sense of why you are the way that you are. Have you stopped to do that lately?

His Word tells us this, “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence, he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.” (Romans 12:6-8 NKJV)

Reflect for a minute: is there anything you do well? If you don’t have an answer, seek your Creator for it. There is something, the enemy is just blinding you from the realization you need to move forward in your purpose.

If you already know what you do well, then use it. Use it to honor God. Seek God so He may lead you to prosperity but use the gift He gave you to complete the assignment He sent you on this earth to fulfill.

Too many of us are trying to fit ourselves in odd spaces.

Consider a spoon.

Would you continuously use a spoon to slice bread? Even if you were so daring, you’d quickly find that while it may get the job done, it won’t get it done well. Would you loathe the design of all spoons thereafter? or would you resolve to use them for the purpose placed upon them by design? I’ll tell you one thing, that knife in all of its sleekness and sharpness is utterly useless when one desires to sample the broth of a soup or gravy of a stewed meat.

I challenge you. Go to your creator. Ask Him why you are the way you are, what plans He has for you, and what He intends to do with the gifts He has invested within you. After He affords His revelation, walk confidently and boldly in all that you are as DEFINED by GOD.

Remember, He only made one you. It is your job to figure out why.

And while you’re seeking more of Him…

Remember to do all you have been purposed to do…

with Love.

Holy Spirit, I thank You for this Word today. Please let it meet the eyes of every person who needs to hear this so that they may be encouraged to move forward and lead others to you with Love. We love You, Lord, and we thank You. In Jesus’ Name to the Glory of the Father, we thank You. Amen.