You were fearfully and wonderfully made. God says that about you in the Bible. He says He watched as you were formed in your mother’s womb. He even had plans for you while you took shape. God even reached down and guided that formation of your body—to make you exactly who you are.
As David was writing this under God’s inspiration, he couldn’t even believe it. He said, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.” Yet it’s true.
The wonderful philosophers of N’Sync said, “God must have spent a little more time on you.” And that statement is entirely true of you. God took time and effort to make you unique. So why do we spend any time comparing ourselves to other people?
Why do we get jealous of someone else’s success? Of someone else’s appearance? Their talents? That’s like the Mona Lisa worrying that she doesn’t look more like Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans. It’s silly.
You are a masterpiece. And you cheapen yourself when you try to be like someone else. When you chase after someone else’s identity, you mar the beauty God intended for you.
Don’t do that. Don’t hide your brush strokes. Don’t hide your flaws. Let the world see who you are and let God show off his masterpiece through you.
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,I know that full well. 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. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:13-16