What makes you so special?

There are about 8 billion people in the world; what makes you so special?

I like to do mini life experiments and I did one some time back: let me let you in on it. Basically, I was going home from town and I decided on my sweet seat by the window in Super Metro to count how many ladies I could identify that I considered beautiful. Now, I don’t recommend you try this at home. My findings: Nairobi has very many beautiful ladies. So, what makes me so special?

There are different metrics that the world would use to set people apart. Your fame, the people you associate with, your religious group, the amount of money in your account, the shape of your body, the grade on your academic transcript, name them…

You see friend, I shudder at the thought that we should subject ourselves to the above metrics. Why? Well, because I have and I am still healing from the damage it cost me. Those standards are subjective, biased, inconsistent, unsustainable and therefore unreliable. We need a stabler anchor. We need something that embraces all humanity in all the ages that we have existed, something beyond us that is above all bias.

So what makes you so special?

I suggest to you creation. I suggest to you a Creator that is so infinite that when He said, ‘Let us make man in our own image,’ He had to make them many but different yet beautiful to bear His infinite beauty. I think God is amazing like that. That He does not need to clone human beings, His image-bearers, because His beauty is infinite, but men are finite.

This places so much value on one single human being. You are irreplaceable so much so that God, Jesus, would have still died for just you if you were the only sinner. This is why it is an absolute tragedy that any of us should be lost. There is only one of you. God simply does not clone.

The relations between God and each soul are as distinct and full as though there were not another soul upon the earth to share His watchcare, not another soul for whom He gave His beloved Son. SC 100.1