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We each have a unique fingerprint pattern and it can be used in the world to tell us apart from another person. Our fingerprints are made up specific information that is unique to each one of us. No 2 fingerprints are the same.
Like fingerprints, we are made up of our own unique qualities. Each person was created with abilities and giftings that are their own and make them who they are. Every one of us has a purpose – a job, persay to do for the Lord. God needs you to be who he created you to be in your home, your work, your church, in whatever it is that he has called you to do. Again, like a fingerprint, there is no other YOU.
Even with our own individuality, God uses us together to paint a bigger, beautiful picture.
Let’s read in 1 Corinthians 12 how each part of the body is needed….
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
So, just as these scriptures remind us, we are all different yet we all make up one body. Each person is needed for the body of Christ to be complete.
This is why it is so important not to compare yourself or be jealous of other people. God created each one of us with certain ‘ingredients’ that make us who we are…..some of us are great cooks , while others are excellent bakers, some have a gifting to work with children while others work better with the elderly. ALL of those people are important but none more important than the other. Our different gifts and abilities should make us love and depend on one another and therefore make us more united as one body in Christ.
Comparison games are dangerous and bring division. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side so be careful how you compare yourself to others – we should strive to be like Jesus and that is the only comparison we should make.
For we are God’s own handiwork, His workmanship, recreated in Christ Jesus, born anew, that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us, taking paths which He prepared ahead of time. That we should walk in them, living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live.
Ephesians 2:10 AMP
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