Day 7 – I am ONE OF A KIND

Can you take a moment and stand still amongst other people or sit somewhere and look at the people around you? What do you see?

It is so amazing that you can stand amongst thousands of people and not everyone will be the same. Is it not just amazing that not only do our skin, hair and eye colour differ from one person to another but our talents, personality, intelligence and life skills also differ from one person to another? We know that our DNA and fingerprints make us to be one of a kind. The meaning of “Kind” is a group of people or things having similar characteristics. Two people cannot have the same DNA or fingerprint, not even if you are an identical twin. Is that all that makes us unique or one of a kind?

Psalm 139:13-14 says “For You (God) formed my innermost parts; You knit me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made”. We are not an afterthought of God the Father, but we were planned, personally named, carefully put together, uniquely gifted, extraordinarily personalized, with delighted characteristics and made in the image of God. The phrase “created my inmost being” consists of the Hebrew words “qanah” and “kilyah”. “Kilyah” literally refers to kidneys. God was attentive to detail, He made every organ, vane and cell work in perfect harmony. “Qanah” primary use is “create or bring forth” meaning God physically created us but it also has a wider range of meanings than merely create. The word is also used to mean to “possess, acquire, redeem or ransom” God our Creator is also our redeemer who ransoms me.

Just as a potter cannot duplicate the same type of pot twice so are we in the hand of our Maker. We may all be humans that talk the same, think the same or walk the same but we will never be the same. Genesis 2:7 “breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life and man become a living soul” Even if we do not say His name out loud, silently we say it by every breath we take. YAH (breathe in) WEH (breathe out).

Prayer: Sovereign God and Father, we are the clay, and You are our Potter. We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” – Rom 8:29 Gladly I surrender to You Lord to form me according to Your divine plan for my life. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Love, Marie Swanepoel

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