The call in your life is not a copy.

In this day of peer pressure, trends, and fads, we need to realize and accept that each person has been custom-made by God the Creator. Each of us has a unique and personal call upon our lives. We are to be our own selves and not copy other people.

Because I do a lot of work with churches, I come into contact with many different types of people. One time I talked over the phone with a pastor I had never met and who did not know me personally. We came to an agreement that I was to visit his church as a consultant. As we were closing our conversation and were setting a time to meet at the local airport, he asked me, "How will I know you when you get off the plane?"

"Oh, don't worry, pastor, I'll know you," I responded jokingly. "You all look alike."

Do You Look Like Everybody Else?
The point of this humorous story is this: be the person God has made YOU to be.

The call of God upon our lives is the provision of God in our lives. We do not need to come up to the standards of anyone else. The average person compares himself with others, but we Christians should always compare ourselves with the person God has called us to be.

That is our standard - God's unique plan and design for our lives. How the Lord chooses to deal with others has nothing to do with our individual call in life or God's timing and direction for us.

You and I can always find someone richer than we are, poorer than we are, or with more or less ability than we have. But how other people are, what they have, and what happens in their lives has no effect upon our call.

In Galatians 6:4 (TLB) we are admonished:

Let everyone be sure that he is doing his very best, for then he will have the personal satisfaction of work well done, and won't need to compare himself with someone else.

God made you a certain way. You are unique. You are one of a kind. To copy others is to cheat yourself out of the fullness of what God has called you to be and to do.

So, choose to accept and become the person God has made you to be. Tap into the originality and creative genius of God in your life.

Source: An Enemy Called Average by John Mason.
Excerpt permission granted by Insight Publishing