I pray each of my readers will cease reading this article until they’ve first read the twelfth chapter of 1 Corinthians. It is imperative if you’re to understand this writing.
If this portion of Scripture teaches anything, it teaches it takes us all as members of the Body of Christ to get the job done. There is not one person that is not necessary to the whole. In fact, the most insignificant is the most needful at times.
There is no such thing as “one size fits all” when it relates to gifts, personalities, and callings. As my younger daughter used to say when two things were identical, “They're same-a-likes.” Well, God doesn’t have any such creatures! The much used idiom, “Why can’t you be like them?”, is answered with, "Simply because God did not make us like anyone else." In fact there is no such thing as identical twins.
I cannot tell you the frustration I have caused among family members, friends, and fellow preachers because I refused to fit into their mold. The Bible is filled with misfits. They were as they say, “Round pegs who wouldn’t fit into square holes.” These saints are too voluminous to list. Just pick anyone greatly used of God and you’ll come up with one.
“Two things about carbon copies: 1. There is no originality. 2. They leave you with stains hard to wash off.”
(rds)
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