THERE IS ONLY ONE YOU!
Think about that. Your face and features, your voice, your style, the way you walk, your background, your characteristics and peculiarities, your abilities, your smile, your handshake, your manner of expression, your view-point – everything about you is found in only one individual since people first began – YOU!

How does that make you feel? It should make you feel elated! God did not make you from an assembly line. How creative is God? Just think! Out of all the millions and gazillions of people that have populated that planet, over the course of history, not one is identical to another. When you look up the word, “creativity,” how could there not be a portrait of God?

Listen to David’s perspective on the subject:
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb,
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one them came to be.
~Psalm 139

Listen, again, to David about mankind in general.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and
honor. ~Psalm 8

If I read these astounding statements correctly, you were prescribed and then presented to this world exactly as God arranged it. Reflect on that truth. You/we/I were not a mere blip on the cosmic screen. We are at the center of the cosmos. We are the reason God fashioned the cosmos. We are the foremost of His visible creatures, for nothing else – no other kind of living creature – was fashioned in the image of God (Genesis 1:26).

Dig as deeply as you please in the ancient, dusty archives of Homo sapiens, and you’ll not find another you in the whole lot. In your case, as is the case for each of us, the mold was broken, never to be used again, once you entered the flow of humankind! Wow!

You are you. There is only one you. And you are important. Thus, with David, we sing and say and shout: Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! 

Until June,
PTK