God Made you Different

 George Frederick Handel was no preacher, no evangelist and no theologian, but in his later years he composed his masterpiece. His brilliant career was seemingly over. He was overwhelmed by debt. One evening, the text of an oratorio appeared on his desk. It was ‘The Messiah.’

His whole life was a God-directed preparation for this masterpiece that reached countless people for Jesus.

CS Lewis was not a preacher or theologian, but an outstanding academic at Oxford University. He converted to Jesus and then wrote books in his own way with his own Christian thoughts. His thoughts were faithful to the Bible, but his way of thinking was by no means conventional.

In the Old Testament, a Jewish girl was kidnapped. She became a slave in the house of a Syrian general. When her master became leprous, she told him to seek the Jewish prophet to receive healing from God.

Are you a well-known person in the world, but you wonder if your life has meaning? Handel was such a person until Jesus commissioned him to proclaim the gospel through his music.

Are you a nobody, perhaps a failure or a victim, like the Hebrew slave in Syria? But Jesus can give your life meaning.

Do you believe in Jesus? You love God and want to do something for him, but maybe you don't fit in with the way things are done in your church. Don't give up. You can ask God how you can follow Jesus in a unique way.

Even the body is made up of many different parts, not just one.

Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 1 Co 12:14–16 NIV