COULD GOD HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB?

What happens when you try to be someone other than who God created you to be?

Thing about this. If you try to be someone else, you can never be better than second best. But more importantly, when you try to be someone other than the unique person God had in mind when He created you, you exhibit a combination of rebellion and ingratitude. You are telling the Creator He could have done better.

Don’t be confused when I tell you to glory in who you are. I'm not talking about the world’s concept of self-realization. It is quite the opposite. What I am talking about is realizing you are fearfully and wonderfully made for a purpose of God’s choosing. "For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago" (Ephesians 2:10, NLT).

There’s a big difference between thinking you can be anything you want to be and submitting to being whoever God had in mind when He made you. One is you deciding, as opposed to you submitting. Today's society is filled with people who think they have control over their bodies, their desires, and their decisions. They think they have the right to change what the Creator created. They think they know better than God. As I said earlier, this is a combination of rebellion and ingratitude.

You are fabulous, unique, gifted, and amazing. You can do things that no one but you is capable of doing. But God is the One who created you and He is the only One who determines what you are to do with those abilities. The creation is always subject to the Creator. There are no exceptions and He has made no mistakes.