For as in one physical body we have many parts (organs, members) and all of these parts do not have the same function or use, so we, numerous as we are, are one body in Christ (the Messiah)…Having gifts (faculties, talents, qualities) that differ according to the grace given us, let us use them….
Just as our body parts are all different, we are also different from one another. Don’t fall into the trap of trying to be anyone other than who you are. God was able to do very little with or through me until I stopped trying to be some other person and became content with being me.
I tried to be the homemaker my neighbor was, but gardening and making my family’s clothes just wasn’t me. I tried to be soft-spoken like my pastor’s wife, but that didn’t work either. I tried to be more relaxed and easygoing like Dave, but that was difficult also. After years of frustration and failure, I finally realized that I had to be “me,” because everyone else was already taken! God wasn’t going to help me be someone else because He had created me the way He wanted me to be.
We all need to make improvement in some areas of our lives, but we must be the people God created us to be, and that means we’ll always be a little different than most of the other people we know. God obviously loves variety, and He wants us to enjoy ourselves and not compare ourselves with other people.
Prayer of the Day: Father, help me embrace the person You want me to be. Help me enjoy myself and live free from the tyranny of comparison.
