God has entrusted me with myself

God would be disappointed with me if I tried to be Moses, if I tried to be Billy Graham or for that matter if they tried to be me. God is not going to say to me on the day of judgement 'why couldn't you be more like them?'. He may say 'why didn't you try to be more like yourself?' I hear that on the radio & it got me thinking.

He has entrusted me with myself and made me with handcrafted genius. I love the idea of creating stuff & I like to think if i was going to design myself i'd change a few things (personality here, looks a bit there etc...) essentially accepting God did a good enough job but thinking there were one or two areas he (or i) could do with tidying up a little. God is not shocked or surprised by my flaws, he made me with them! Not excusing when I do stuff wrong but seriously my biggest flaw is that i think more about my flaws than i do about the positive. When you surf (as I have a whole twice!) if you look at your feet you fall over but if you look up you surf (sometimes). If you look at your weakness' you fall over, if you focus on God & the bigger picture you surf.

God has entrusted me with myself to be myself and make the most of myself not spend my whole life trying to make myself something else. I heard a preacher once say that when God called us to be salty he meant us to taste more of our flavour (personality etc...) like when you add salt to food but not to taste of just salt (as in all the same) The good thing about being yourself is if you do it right it shouldn't require any effort. I want to be a better person, i want to be more pro-active and get more stuff done but i also want to be satisfied that i am in fact ok, that i am in fact well-crafted, and that, as i am with no effort at all i am in fact accepted, loved and good. Effort beyond that will help more of me come in to focus. God wants us to wrestle with him to know him more, it takes effort to help the poor, to do my job well, to be a good husband, dad, friend etc... but these are things that can flow out of a confidence in who i am, who i was made to be and the potential of who i can be. To do these things well i need to first appreciate that i am firstly accepted, loved & good