Created for a Unique Purpose

God made you for a purpose, to the extent that God had planned out all of your days, before you were even born (Psalm 139:16). There is no one else who has the unique combinations of gifts and experiences you have. Your social network is uniquely yours. Your family is uniquely yours. There are lives that God can use you to touch in ways that no one else can. God made you to be used for His glory (Isaiah 43:7), and he can use you like he can use no one else.

My freshman year of college I was really torn because many of my high school friends had gone to college, and were having a rough time. I wanted to be there to support them, but there are only so many ways you can be supportive over the phone from 3 ½ hours or more away. 

In this time I came across a passage in first Thessalonians. In 2:17-20 and 3:1-3 Paul talks about how he had longed to visit the church in Thessalonica. He had even attempted to come to them many times, only to be hindered. Since Paul was needed elsewhere and could not go to the Thessalonians, Timothy was sent in his stead to lead the church. God showed me through this passage that God had placed where I was for a reason, and he would bring others into the lives of my friends who would show them his love, when I couldn’t be there.

The thing that we have to remember is that sometimes you could be an answer to prayer. Sometimes you could be who God is going to bring into someone’s life that will help to show them his love. Sometimes you will be Timothy. God can use you like he can use no one else in all of history. God does what he wills (Psalm 135:6) and he willed you into existence for a purpose and chose to save you for a reason. 

How has God used you in a unique way? Share in the comments below.

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*This was originally posted on 3/24/13 and updated on 1/3/19 


The thing that we have to remember is that sometimes YOU are the person that someone else has been praying for. Sometimes YOU are the person that God is going to bring into someone’s life that will help to show them His love. God can use you like He can use NO ONE else in ALL OF HISTORY. God does what He wills and He willed you into existence for a purpose and chose to save you for a reason.phone from 3 ½ hours or more away. But God showed me a passage where Paul was writing to one of the early churches (I really wish I remembered what book this was) and He was saying how He had longed to come to them, and had tried to many times, but He kept being needed elsewhere and He had heard and knew that God was bringing other people to them to build them up, which He couldn’t do. And what God showed me through that was that God had placed me here at A&M for a reason and that He would bring others into the lives of my friends that would show them His love, when I can’t be there.

The thing that we have to remember is that sometimes YOU are the person that someone else has been praying for. Sometimes YOU are the person that God is going to bring into someone’s life that will help to show them His love. God can use you like He can use NO ONE else in ALL OF HISTORY. God does what He wills and He willed you into existence for a purpose and chose to save you for a reason.