Being Unique

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. …

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. …