I am Not a Copy
We all come out of our mother’s womb different by God’s design
Psalms 139 details God’s work in making us
Adam was created out of dust and shaped by God
Eve was made from Adam’s rib
You and I were made by an egg and a sperm
And like Adam and Eve, shaped by God
The reason there is no one like you is God made you for a special purpose
You are not a copy
Being like everyone else and blending in might make you feel more secure
But you can never be more secure than being who God made you to be
Being different is not to make you insecure, it is to make you more valuable
I am Not a Copy
What do you see when you see a snowflake?
According to weather.gov/winter…
Snow crystals are translucent, not white.
The white coloring is caused by sunlight that is reflected off the crystals.
All visible colors are reflected, which together, look white.
If we see a snowflake as white and it is translucent,
how comes we can’t see it for what it is?
Because Color is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them. To see color, you have to have light. When light shines on an object some colors bounce off the object and others are absorbed by it. Our eyes only see the colors that are bounced off or reflected.
What if you are like a snowflake?
You see yourself as translucent.
But God sees you in His light…
As white because all the visible
colors are reflected through you.
According to weather.gov/winter…
A cubic foot of snow (that is a cube with 12 inches on all sides)
may contain between 1 and 2 million individual snowflakes
It is hard to see when the ground
is covered with snow.
It is hard to see that one person makes
a difference in the sea of humanity,
from the beginning of creation or even
in the 7.8 billion people on earth today.
Yet, like the snow flake,
no two flakes are the same.
I remember the first time I saw a single snowflake,
I was about 9 or 10 years of age.
I was in the car and a snowflake landed
on the car window and it did not melt.
I will never forget how amazing, unique
and beautiful that little snowflake was…
Knowing it was unlike any other ever.
Much of what we see is man-made.
The other day Sandy went to
Menard’s to buy mulch.
One of the employees helped Sandy load
her purchases in the back of the truck.
As Sandy went to the driver’s door,
she thought it was strange
that she could not get in.
Thinking she might be
loading someone else’s truck,
she looks at the front bumper
because our bumper is dented.
When she did not see the dent, she
shouted out to the employee to stop loading.
What was the problem?
The white truck was a copy.
McDonalds, like most fast food restaurants,
have mastered the art of coping their
food items so you always get the same meal
no matter what McDonalds you go to.
At creation, God made everything different.
Like the snowflake God made…
Adam and Eve were different.
No two people are exactly the same,
not even identical twins.
An original is worth more than a copy.
Think of how many pennies you have
spent in your life time and never
gave it more value than one cent.
In 1972, several prototypes of the
one cent were produced,
including the large Birch cent.
In 2015, a 1972 Birch cent sold at
auction for nearly $2.6 million.
To be like all the other copies…
You lose value.
God made you in His image
different than everyone else.
We all come out of our mother’s
womb different by God’s design.
Psalms 139 details God’s
work in making us...
Adam was created out of
dust and shaped by God.
Eve was made from Adam’s rib.
You and I were made by an egg and a sperm
and like Adam and Eve, shaped by God.
The reason there is no one like you
is God made you for a special purpose.
You are not a copy.
Being like everyone else and blending
in might make you feel more secure…
But you can never be more secure
than being who God made you to be.
Being different is not to make you insecure…
It is to make you more valuable.
Scripture Reading
Psalms 139:1-24 NIV
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in — behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 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, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! 20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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