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Monday August 17
Never Compromise Your Uniqueness!
"Look," they told him, "you are now old, and your sons are not like you. Give us a king to judge us like all the other nations have." 1 Samuel 8:5 (NLT)

Some people are miserable not because of troubles they are facing but for the fact that they are tormented by the feeling that everybody has what they don’t have. Consider Israel, happy until they began to demand for a king like other nations. What they were asking was already theirs because Jehovah wanted to rule over them to make them unique; unlike other nations of the world!

It is a dangerous thing to want to become like other people. Anytime you start lusting to be like other people you lose your distinction and your uniqueness. The power for living is in being yourself and operating the way God created you. God cannot bless a person that keeps on changing identity from week to week. Celebrate your own uniqueness for a satisfactory, fulfilling, and colourful destiny. This is your day.

Wisdom Fountain: "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Prayer: Father Lord God, thank You for creating me with distinct purpose, value, and design. Grant me the bold grace to reject the pressure to blend in, refusing to trade my God-given uniqueness for temporary approval, ease, or fear. Keep my heart steadfast to walk authentically in the path You have set before me in Jesus’ name.