Born an Original...

Original I look at that word and often ponder the meaning what does it mean to be original...Webster Dictionary can inform us that to be original means "a person who is different from other people in an appealing or interesting way". I think for the generation we live in we have really lost a hold of what it truly means to be original. We all know the story "In the Beginning God created"... Genesis is full of life and than the tragic of the fall. Whenever God created something after He created whatever "it" was He said it was GOOD. God created and He said it was good, no flaws, no mishaps, no mistakes... He created and it was good than in Genesis 3 evil comes into this good and created chaos, it created confusion and distance. No longer was all of the creation in perfect harmony... Confusion started to play a part and take over the minds of the good mindset, I look at humans and it just simply amazes me that we are God's creation but we don't treat ourselves as if we are created by the most Holy God of the entire universe. We treat ourselves how other people treat us we think we "deserve" or so what, but when the words of the world start to cut deep into our souls we begin to question am I God's original, I mean we go out and oh hey look that person is wearing the same shirt as me, that person has the new iphone so do I! Or that person worships like that so I should copy that person to win God's favour and attention just like that person seems to be doing. We have become a generation of copies and originals are very hard to find in today's society we are all about wanting to do what everyone else is doing and have loss our sense of what is really real anymore. We have fallen into a materialistic world where we tend to forget about those still quiet moments, those moments that God created in creation those "good moments" to just rest as God did and admire what He created. Because He saw what He created and He said it was good. So then we know that evil has entered this world but the one thing I think so many of us forget is that good still exists in this world but we can only see good if we see the Creator and what He has created. I don't think it was ever a mistake that God created no one set of fingerprints identical to anyone else's fingers. Genesis 1:27 states this "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them" We are God's original workmanships.I was watching a video last night from "The Skit Guys-Chisel" and this is where some of my thoughts are coming from tonight. God created us to be original to be unique, to be loved. He created you the way you are for a very special reason, He created unique parts of you that nobody else has whether that be the way your lip goes down when you smile or the tears you cry in His presence. He created us all different for a reason I was reading through the bible last night and in 1 Corinthians 12 it talks about the body of the church the body of Christ how each and everyone plays a different role and I believe that is why God created us each original because we all have a different part and just because people on a "church body" tends to notice the hands or the heart or the feet or the mouth does not mean any of the other members are less important because I look at my body and I can't see my internal organs but I know with out my spline I would be dead without it or my appendix is another important body part, I hope you are getting the picture with the whole body what I am trying to explain. Why are we so afraid of people who are different because in the end we are all sinners and saved by grace. We try to be like robots in this generation and in this culture we are so hooked on the last hashtags, the lastest trending issues, the bathroom selfie, we forget to take a moment and understand wait a minute is this really how I am suppose to be living, living every day life with how everyone else lives life. We are missing the bigger picture is that we were created by God and for God and to bring Him ultimate glory in ALL we do. We have lost sight of our Creator and we can't know that we are drifting away from God if we don't wake up and realize it we will miss the opportunity to intimately get to know our Creator the one who formed us and loved us before we knew what love was. I want to be known as an original despite our copy cat society. I want to be the person God created in Genesis 1:27-"Created in His image" I don't want the world to stain and tatter the masterpiece God created me to be, the redeemed person through the blood of Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:10 "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." Wow I don't know about you but reading that we are his masterpiece I think of some famous artist like Picasso or Monet and my goodness if they were alive today wouldn't you (fellow artists) want to get to know him? Get to talk over a coffee or tea and just listen to his skills and what inspired him etc. But don't you see we have that as God we get to know because of his unfailing love and sending his Son to die for us as an atoning sacrifice, we get to know our Artist our Creator who created us in His image. He didn't create us in the World's image or in a Giraffe's image but divinely in His image. He created us so that we could know Him and not just on a fluffy light note but on a so deep soul intimately knowing. He didn't create us to be a copy but an original His original MASTERPIECE, a one of a kind, a worshiper, a lover, a believer. He created us to be us and be ok because the more we lose ourselves in the world the more we find ourselves in our Creator who knows us better than anyone else on this face of the Earth. From the beginning He loved us more than we could ever know. As I wrap up these thoughts (which I hope make sense..) I encourage you the more you go to God the less you will go to other people to try to be a replica of them and the more you will begin to look to your Creator and find your identity in Him. "You were born an ORIGINAL don't die a Copy"-John Mason God Bless