I like to go to watch the Legos movies with my boys. They are funny and have good messages. In the first Lego movie there is a character named Emmett. He wants so badly to be special, to matter, but nothing about him stands out. He’s just a construction worker, not anything special. Have you ever felt like him? Not special, just a whatever role you play. Just, as if there is something more or greater than just. Is there more? Is there truly a just? 

We have all heard that we are created uniquely. That there is no one in the whole world exactly like us, a combination of our personality and our DNA. What we, each individually, bring to the world is a one of a kind combination. What we can do, how we can serve, it’s just a bit different than how someone else would. Sure, others might do the same kinds of service, but it would be just a little bit different, have a different flavor if you will, then how you might do it. More than that, the world is so large, it’s so big with countless people, yet we are needed in our corner of the world in our moment of time.

Back to Emmett, at one point in the movie he gets the piece of resistance attached to him. He is identified as the chosen. Yet everyone is disappointed in him, because they expect him to be so special, but he’s just Emmitt, the construction worker.  In spite of this lack of faith or belief from the others, he does become the hero ultimately. Not because anyone recognized him as special, but out of service and sacrifice for others.

It is no different for believers. We have been given God’s spirit, his holy spirit. This is the piece of resistance if you will for a believer. Yet in our own selves we are still the same with our limitations, our humanness. We are not special on our own. Only God’s spirit in us does something. It activates a desire to serve, to give, and to sacrifice. This is what brings us to the place where an idea becomes action. Faith transforms into action and at that moment, our typical becomes powerful. Our non-special becomes the special. It is God in us that is the hope of glory.

The place our uniqueness comes in is that God uses us all differently. What God wants you to do is not the same as he asks from me. As it says in Corinthians, there are different gifts God gives us. We are blessed with these gifts to then bless others. And we are all blessed in different ways. With all the gifts there is one commonality, we are to operate them in love. Our unique gifts joined together with other believers to spread God’s love. That is the beauty of the plan of God and our part in it.  A body operating, working together to be the hands and feet of Jesus. That’s where the true power is at. There were other great characters in the movie who participated in the victory such as Unikitty, Wild Style, Astronaut Lego man, Batman, etc. but in the end the victory belonged to all of them not just Emmitt, the hero. We are a part of the body, each part is needed, each part with a special way in which they must serve, the way they are called to sacrifice, and the way they demonstrate God’s love. 

This is the beauty of God’s plan, there is no “the special” except God, but through his spirit’s transformation and work in us, all of us, we are special. His anointing transforms and works in us and through us. Stop wondering if as believers there’s a place for you at the table, there is.  He has a plan and a gifting for you. Walk in it, be it, the special that God has made you! 

Stop waiting for others to see that you’re special and know that God recognizes you. It only matters that he knows your name. You are not a just, an only, there is more. His spirit in you and through you. In addition to that, we are not alone, there are many others working for Christ as you are, serving the same King and Master, and who likes you are empowered by the same mighty spirit, working in and through them. The ultimate victory will be all of ours. As the Lego movie says in the cat poster “believe.” That’s the start. Receive and share the special that Christ has put inside of you. Love others and share his spirit! It will change the world or at least your piece of it.

Scriptures: 1 Cor. 12, 1 Peter 4:10-11, Ephesians 1:13-14, Romans 8:14-17, 2 Tim 1:7,9, Acts 1:8, 2 Cor. 4:7, Ephesians 3:16-21