Chip Kendall
Chip Kendall

DNA scientists know more about human beings now than ever before in the history of the world. Because of our DNA, we now know that all human beings are 99% exactly the same. Not just family members, not just people the same colour as us, not just friends who have the same taste in clothes as we do. All human beings. If you're in a room with other people right now, take a look around and think, 'I'm 99% the same as that person over there.' Crazy, huh?

The 1% that makes us truly unique shows up in at least three different prints on our bodies. The fingerprint, the eye print and the tongue print. Each of these, I believe, also carries a deeper more spiritual significance.

Fingerprints are usually associated with criminals, but in reality we all leave our fingerprints everywhere we go, simply by touching things and picking them up. On a deeper level, we also leave our 'mark' on people's lives. Either a mark of encouragement or discouragement, help or hurt, smallness or greatness. We should all aim to leave a mark of greatness on our generation, especially as we seek to follow the example set by Jesus.

Eye prints are no longer relegated to James Bond movies, where someone's iris is scanned before entering some secret lab. Many people in the real world are opting to have their eyes scanned in airports, instead of waiting in long queues at passport control. But again, I think there's a deeper reason for God giving us each a unique eye print. He's created us with a specific vision, both for our own lives and the world around us. The way we see the world determines the way we serve the world. We need to constantly be setting our sights higher, making heaven's perspective our own.

Finally, why in the world would God give us a unique tongue print? The Bible has a lot to say about the power of the tongue, to both build and to tear apart, to bring life and to bring death. This happens, of course, through the words that we use.

Each of us has been given a unique voice. What are you using yours for? It's time to speak up. CR

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