You are special

Have you ever stopped to think about the fact that there is only one you?  Contemplate that for a moment.

Everything about you is uniquely you. Your sweet character, your abilities and strange peculiarities, your laugh, your smile, your mannerisms, viewpoints, preferences and tastes.  Everything about you is precious and it makes you who you are. No where in all of history has there ever been, nor will there ever be again, anyone exactly like you.
The most wonderful thing of all is that YOU didn't 'just happen'.  God made every intricate detail of who you are. God wanted YOU to be YOU. He planned you that way.

He designed you right down to the finest molecule, distinct in every way and unlike any other individual on the face of the earth. Then, after he was finished creating, he broke the mold, never to use it again.

Why then is it sometimes so easy to feel lost in the crowd; as if no one cares; all alone and maybe even left behind. It couldn't be further from the truth. Listen carefully to what God's word says in Psalm 139:1-16

O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.  You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord You go before me and follow me. If I ride the wings of the morning. You place your hand of blessing on my head.  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you. You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!

Next time you are tempted to think you don't matter to anyone; next time you despise a part of yourself that makes you uniquely you, remember that your Creator God loves you more than you can even fathom and he knew exactly what he was doing when he formed you. YOU are wonderful to Him and exactly the way he intended you to be.