You Are Not Replaceable
Let’s be honest: in many areas of life, you can be replaced. That’s not to say that someone else is just like you, but it is to say that many of our roles in life will eventually be filled by someone else.
Don’t believe me? Just quit your job and see if they don’t hire someone else.
Even Oscar Meyer’s weinermobile driver can be replaced. In fact, they are currently searching for a new “hotdogger” to drive the famous car all over the place.
Know that we are replaceable can be depressing. It certainly is a shot to our ego; that’s for sure.
But there are other areas of life–in fact, the most important areas–where you are simply not replaceable. Literally no one else can do what you can do, and it is up to you to fulfill those roles.
For example,
- No one else can be the mother or father to your children that you are.
- No one else can be the spouse that you are.
- No one else can reach and evangelize the people you can.
- No one else can fulfill the exact combination of roles in your local congregation that you can.
- No one else can stand before the Lord in judgment for you.
When we look at things that way, don’t you feel not just important, but don’t you feel a great weight of responsibility and motivation?
So, why not get out there and do those things that only you can do, and do them to the very best of your ability! After all, if you don’t, literally no one else will!
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might…” (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
