Today, looking at all the products in Target, I was thinking how quickly an item can be duplicated and produced once the pattern is made. Many, many, many of the same items can be turned out in a short amount of time with little effort.  So much of our world applies the mass production to its wooden spoons, its canned goods, its cars, its clothing, food, even our work and our jobs.

The purpose behind this is more goods produced in less time, fewer facilities needed to make the product, even less materials can be used once the process gets down to a science, and last but not least, fewer people are needed to make these goods. All this can make a person feel like a mere cog in the wheel, just part of the cycle of production, not important, perhaps even replaceable and unneeded. This can really begin to eat at you if you let it.

The good news is God, the creator of everything, did not mass produce anything! He made, created, a lot out of nothing, but none of it is mass produced. You can rest assured you are not a cog in the wheel to God. You were not mass produced, turned off an assembly line… maybe up to spec and maybe not. No, God made you and said, “It is good!” Each of us has His stamp on us. We are all unique, each has certain traits, characteristics, talents, and skills; although perhaps similar to another’s they are different and God wants to use them in a different way. Don’t despise your differences when you try to compare yourself with others. Know that God made you just the way He intended. Now all we have to do is grow and develop and allow Him to bring to maturity what He started.

He who began a good work in you will finish it!