Irreplaceable You
KINGDOM TRUTH #2: GOD HAS DESIGNED YOU WITH A SPECIFIC PURPOSE.
When God designed irreplaceable you, He picked everything about you. Every single thing. God actually knit you together. (See Psalm 139:13). Knit as in hand-on-hand, stitch-by-stitch, every piece deliberately chosen. (It’s probably not a coincidence that DNA looks like strands of twisted yarn.) Your hair color? Hand-picked. Your height? By design. But it’s not just your physical appearance that God strategically chose. He also wove in your specific talents and abilities. Your strengths and weaknesses. He even picked the family that you live in (He also knew that some would be challenging!). And the town. And the time in the story of humanity in which you’d be born.
God has given you specific gifts for the specific time and place you’re in. Why? Because He has a very important purpose for you—a role that only you can fill.
Years ago, God introduced Himself to Moses and clearly told Moses his purpose—he was to lead God’s people out of captivity in Egypt to freedom (Exodus 3–4).
Like Moses and the people of Israel, we live in a captive world. God tells us in Genesis how it got that way. God had given Adam and Eve authority, but by disobeying God, they chose to follow Satan and surrendered that authority to him. When the world was under God’s authority—before the fall—it was filled with the goodness of God’s character—love, wholeness, joy, peace, kindness, and justice. But now, the whole world is under the control of the evil one (1 John 5:19). And it’s filled with the trademarks of its current master, Satan—hatred, pain, insecurity, loneliness, injustice, fear, sickness, and shame. We live in a broken, hurting world.