Have you ever considered how different you are from everyone else on the planet? Your fingerprints are uniquely yours. Family members may share similar DNA markers, but they’re not identical. Even identical twins aren’t always 100% identical. There can be minute differences. Surprisingly, there are reportedly 5.2–100+ differences between identical twins. 

There are no two of you. Now, I suppose, there are some who might be happy there aren’t. We might share similarities and traits, but we are all different. So, if we’ve been created with this uniqueness, is it possible that there are other aspects of our uniqueness we should be looking at? For example, were we created for a unique purpose? A purpose that no one else is suited for or created for? Consider, for the moment, the life of Moses. He was born at a time when all the baby boys were being put to death, so he should not have lived. Yet he did. As a young man, he seemed somewhat aware of a calling, as evidenced by his attempt to protect his countrymen from the abuse of the Egyptian rulers. If you read his story, you’ll know that he was a reluctant leader, as seen throughout the Book of Exodus. Yet it was Moses that God used to bring freedom to his people. Moses might have been happy tending sheep on the back side of some mountain, but God had other plans.

The Apostle Paul is another whose life was turned around by an encounter with God. Anyone reading his story will quickly realize that God had a specific plan for his life, and that it was not what Paul had thought it would be. When you consider that Paul was a man educated in Judaism and that a relationship with Gentiles simply didn’t exist, according to everything he had been taught, and yet there he was, an Apostle to the Gentiles. 

So what about you? Have you been uniquely created for something you haven’t explored or even thought of? Is it possible? How would you know? Perhaps the starting point for anyone who is unsure is simply to ask. Think about it.