A Shoe for Every Sport
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★WHEN I grew up, I had tennis shoes. Tennis shoes were also called sneakers back then, and you used one pair for everything.
You played basketball in them and ran in them. Whatever you did, you did with your sneakers. But then Nike came along.
Nowadays, people have to have designer tennis shoes and you have to have a different kind of tennis shoe for every sport. You can’t just run and walk in the same shoe; you have to have a separate and different kind of shoe for each activity. How can there be a difference between a running shoe and a walking shoe? The reason is that each shoe is specialized and crafted to fulfill the purpose for which it is being worn.
Well, God is wearing you. He has crafted every single believer to wear based on where He wants to go or where He wants you to take Him and carry out His purposes.
The point
God crafted each believer as a specialized shoe for His purposes—uniquely designed to carry Him and accomplish His work.