You Are Special

There are people who are frustrated because everything they touch or are involved in goes wrong. It sometimes looks like everything is okay until suddenly it all goes wrong. There are others who don’t have to struggle because everything they are involved in seems to succeed. We are going to talk about the second group of people here because that is how the Christian’s life is or must be. You are special if you are a Christian.

Now people might have said to you, “Why are you so lucky?” or “You seem to be looking younger and younger,” or “There is so much bad news these days, yet you seem untroubled by them” or “Why is it that all you do ends up succeeding?”

First of all we as believers don’t believe in luck or chance. Everything that happens is for a reason. Now, the people of the world don’t have spiritual discernment so they only go by what they see – your physical appearance, behaviour and what happens to you. Thus, if they notice something different about you, it is because of God’s glory evident on your life.

Your friends and colleagues may have told you that you stand out from the rest as though a spotlight were on you. Indeed, this is evident because of Christ in you (Colossians 1:27). When God’s glory rises upon you, your words carry weight, even if you are not eloquent. This is to prove that you had nothing to do with it and that it was all the Lord’s doing.

You don’t have to be a straight-A student or someone able to speak the Queen’s Language. You may be foul-mouthed like the disciple Peter, but when God changes you and His glory rises upon you, and you stand up and preach, 3,000 people will get saved (Acts 2:14–41). What is important is that God gives weight to what you say.

Now to the first group in the first paragraph, you might be a nobody like Joseph, a slave cast aside and forgotten in a dungeon. Yet, the greatest king on earth at that time sought Joseph out to have him interpret his dreams. In other words, God will give to you answers that the people of the world do not have.

Maybe whatever you touch now does not succeed but God is preparing you to heal the sick and raise the dead. He wants to point out to you that it is not by your hands but by His mighty power that works in you. Not only that, He is going to give you wisdom that will cause you to give good counsel that is spot on.

When you become born again, everything changes. You are no longer the person you were even a few seconds before you got born again. You are therefore commissioned to bring heaven on planet earth.

“The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising” (Isaiah 60:3). My beloved, when you see this happening, it is because the people of the world are drawn to the glory of the Lord which has risen upon you! You are special to God so don’t forget that.