Uniquely You

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5)

Have you ever considered that Jeremiah’s pronouncement is similar to yours?

That the only difference with it is that your assignment is not like his?

What do I mean?

God creates each person on earth with their own personal mission, a mission completely different from anyone else’s in the whole wide world.

The reality of God is that He is the creator.

Unlike us, however, He does not need existing materials to do the creating.

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. (1Corinthians 1: 27 – 29)

He created everything that exists out of nothing.

Due to that, God does not repeat Himself. He does not clone or duplicate anything He does.

And that because He does not need existing materials or procedures to create anything.

This means that you are one of a kind, the only one from God’s factory line. Which means that He does not have any assembly line anywhere.

You are therefore the one and only.

On the same vein, it means that the reason and purpose for His creating you is also singular.

He created you with ONLY ONE assignment in mind, an assignment ONLY YOU can accomplish.

It means that you do not have any other assignment.

The purpose of your creation is therefore that assignment and nothing else you do will complete you or it.

Sadly, many of us do not think of God’s relationship to us on those terms, many times thinking of ourselves as the products of an assembly line, albeit a divine one.

We therefore follow protocols and blueprints assembly lines use, meaning we do everything just like the next person.

But that severely limits God and His purposes because we leave the bulk of our assignment to pursue wholesale engagements.

Worse is that it puts us on a trajectory way off what we were created for.

We will encounter frustration and dysfunction due to that.

Imagine a tractor ferrying passengers or a van trying to plough!

That is how we look when we follow assembly line protocols when looked at from the divine angle.

We will perform optimally only when we align with the assignment God created for us and created us for.

The problem is that we rarely seek to know God enough to know why and what He created us for.

And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. (Exodus 9:16)

You see, if God could create a rebellious king for His purpose, what reason do I have to suppose that I was created out of a divine whim?

The truth of the matter is that each person God creates has a single assignment exclusive to him, an assignment that completes the ‘jigsaw’ that is God’s complete creation.

However, in order to do my part, I must allow the Owner of that jigsaw to place me since it will be foolhardy, if not completely futile, to seek to find that position on my own.

And it will be even worse for me to allow another person do that placement.

There is one very popular trend (allow me to call it doctrine) that has been doing the rounds in church for a long time called the purpose driven movement.

I have attended enough seminars. If I remember well, I was at one time a qualified trainer in those seminars though I suspect God blocked me from actually training.

It appears very Biblical, wholesome.

But looking at it more critically you will find that it is a very me-centric movement.

Though there is so much mention of God and His word, there is very little surrender to God either in the pursuit or expectation.

It is close to two decades since I was there and so I do not remember much of the material.

But allow me to point out to something Christ said to get my point across, fruit.

Any God-centred movement will reproduce God’s character in its adherents.

It will produce holiness, contentment, peace.

It will produce a rest consistent with God’s presence.

But looking at the higher echelons of that movement there is very little of that you see.

Their pursuit (for those of us who seek to look beyond the rhetoric) ends up being materialistic.

A new car, a bigger car, a house, a house on the suburbs.

Then a church, a bigger church, a cathedral.

However, there is very little, if any, change on their environment.

There is very little spiritual transformation.

The sermons offer no challenge for spiritual pursuits but everything about material pursuits.

There is very little about spiritual hunger but everything about professional excellence.

It therefore produces great worldly success stories without any spiritual muscle.

Incidentally, there are a number of other similar thrusts I have been part of, trained to the point of becoming a trainer, yet when I stepped back to examine discovered them as shallow shortcuts that accomplish very little in the spiritual.

You see, spiritual movements do not have or need any marketing gimmicks.

They require a person and team committed to personal holiness and possessing spiritual hunger that is all-compassing.

Spiritual movements are never on the lookout for followers or supporters.

They are consistent in pursuing God’s will at the personal level so that they can then impact their surroundings.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. (Matthew 5:6)

It is their personal pursuit of holiness that is the driver for their community’s transformation.

That is what we see when we go through God’s word

From Samuel to David to Josiah, we see the personal pursuit of holiness as the driver for national transformation.

That is why connecting to what God created you for should be the driver for any impact you are seeking, wherever.

That is what God expects of each and every one of us.

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. (Psalm 143:10)

And He has opened the door for us to be successful in it.

Will you start on that pursuit?