Have you ever noticed our tendency to be just like everyone else? Different groups of people start all acting alike and talking alike when they start spending enough time together. And I get it, we all want to fit in to some degree. The thing that bothers me is when it really gets taken to extremes.
I like to pay attention to human behavior. I notice how certain fashion trends become really strong until virtually everyone is wearing the same type of thing, or the same brand. One thing that has stood out to me over the last few years are the prevalence of The North Face jackets. That brand has really made inroads into our culture. However they were able to successfully pull off this marketing phenomenon, I’m not really sure. I just know that whatever they’re doing, it seems to be working.
Even though I had noticed this strong trend in the public, I guess it didn’t really fully impact me until I was in the checkout lane at the grocery store the other day. See, I have a pretty nice jacket that I wear. It’s not as recognizable a name as The North Face but it’s still high quality. And I got it on sale, so it was fairly reasonable. Probably quite a bit cheaper than The North Face jacket. It’s made by a company named Cloudveil. Anyway, I was standing in line at the checkout and the cashier asks me, “What’s Cloudveil? I said, “It’s just a brand. Kind of like The North Face.” She said, “Oh, I thought it was maybe the name of your company or something.” By company I think she meant my business, like I was a business owner or something.
I was a little surprised by her question. I can understand someone not hearing of the brand. But even if they had never heard of the brand I would have thought they would just assume that it was a brand. Of course, I do know that had I been wearing a North Face jacket that she wouldn’t have even had to ask the question. Because even if she didn’t own one herself, she would have certainly seen someone wearing one in public. It’s kind of like, if it’s not The North Face it doesn’t exist. It seemed to have gotten to the point that if it’s not The North Face, it’s doesn’t even qualify as a brand.
Now I have to confess, part of the appeal for me buying the jacket I bought was that it wasn’t The North Face. And it wasn’t that I wanted everyone to think I was special, I just didn’t want them to think that I was exactly the same. But I kind of liked that it was something unique and yet still looked good.
I believe in our effort to fit into society we can have a tendency to take it too far. The sad thing to me is when we make such an effort that we lose all sense of our individuality. I mean, we shouldn’t be so weird that no one can even relate to us. But we shouldn’t be so similar that everyone is just like us either. It’s OK for each of us to display our personality. That’s what makes each of us interesting.
While we all have certain similarities, I believe God created us to be individuals and to express our own unique personality. We don’t have to be afraid to be ourselves. So many times this world can try to force us into a certain mold
AV Psalms 8:4 says, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” The Psalmist asks the question about why God takes such special interest in us. He’s curious, knowing the greatness of God, why would He take interest in the seeming insignificance of mankind? The next verse displays for us God’s level of interest in us.
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AV 1 Peter 2:9 says, “But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:” This verse in 1 Peters speaks specifically to our uniqueness as believers. If you’ve trusted Jesus as savior, you have a whole other level of uniqueness. You have a calling and position unique only to you. As believers we have many things that make us unique. We don’t do things the way the world does and we don’t see things the way the world does. It even calls us a peculiar people. Don’t worry, this is a good thing. It just means we have a different way of operating.
Finally in AV 1 John 2:15 it says, “Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” This is pointing out to us the need not to fall into the trap of loving the things of this world. I believe it not only means worldly things, but worldly ways. Sometimes we can fall prey to these pressures of our society. The pressure to keep up. The pressure to fit in. But we weren’t made for that. We were made to be unique.
The bottom line is, you are the best you there is ever going to be. Don’t waste it trying to be someone, or something else. You won’t be very good at it anyway. The only person we are called to be like is Jesus. He is our model. And even in that we still are individuals and we were made to be unique.
AV Psalms 8:4 says, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?”
AV 1 Peter 2:9 says, “But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”
AV 1 Peter 2:9 says, “But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”
AV 1 John 2:15 it says, “Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”