When we wish to be like someone else we dismiss who God made us to be. All that he planned us to be and do. When we try to follow someone else’s calling we miss who God made us to be and what he called us to do.
Like Lucy in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, wanting to be like Susan she wished herself away and all that resulted from her existence. Lucy wished to be just like her older sister Susan. But if she was Susan then the curious young girl that was Lucy who found Narnia would not have existed. Lucy and her siblings would not have found Narnia.
We are each unique none of us are exactly like the other. God made us that way and that’s what makes each of us special. We are all beautiful and valuable to him. He gave his very life for each one of us.
Next time you get discouraged. Seek God and let him show you the unique reasons he loves you.
For it was you who created my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will praise you
because I have been remarkably and wondrously made.
Your works are wondrous,
and I know this very well -Psalm 139:13-14