How To Be A Perfect Fit
One of the biggest issues facing This Generation is this burning desire to fit in with a crowd. This doesn’t have to be the popular crowd, this could be any crowd. People want to feel like they fit in, belong, and that they matter. Which I totally understand.
Because we are designed that way.
Genesis 2:18, “The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
To an extent, we have to find a spot where we “fit.”
Here is the issue, if we aren’t careful, our community can become our idol.
We are so afraid of being a misfit, someone who doesn’t act the same, someone who looks different, or that we will be rejected that we slowly morph into being just like everyone else.
Ultimately this is an issue because while God designed us to be in community, that doesn’t mean we have to act 100% institutionally.
There should be a part of us that is different from everyone else. Why?
Once again: we are designed that way.
1 Corinthians 12:12-14
“For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all given one Spirit to drink. 14 Indeed, the body is not one part but many.
I love this idea of community and operating differently. We all have to work together and we should be fighting for extreme unity. The best way to make that happen is for everyone to do their part.
We can’t have 10 feet, 4 biceps, and no brain. Everybody has to play their part in their way. What that means is you will actually be a bit of a misfit because you will be different.
What if we changed our definition of this though?
I actually believe that being a misfit means you are a perfect fit.
You are a perfect fit because our differences are our advantages.
Let’s use my role in the Church as an example.
There are things I can do that other people can’t such as: I lead our This Gen team, I communicate regularly, I write things like this blog, I play a little bass.
God has made me with these skills to make a difference in the body.
What he hasn’t given me is: The ability to sing, make a cup of great coffee, build awesome things for the building, or do perfectly edited clerical work.
So yeah, when I am around those teams, I am a bit of a misfit, but that is okay! Because I am doing my job while they do theirs.
You might feel like a misfit… Great. Use that to your advantage.
You got a crazy life story? Awesome. Some people can connect to that!
You work a super blue collar job? Great. Take advantage of the time working shoulder to shoulder with someone.
You are the only musically talented person in your friend group? No problem! Lead them in worship from a stage.
What I am trying to say is that we don’t have to be the same as everyone else. We should use our unique God given talents, passions, and story to help everyone else.
If that is what a misfit looks like - then I have no problem being one. If we really embrace that will it affect our current groups that we are in? Probably so. But it doesn’t have to be a negative effect. In fact, it could be a very positive one. So stop trying to be a perfect fit, be a misfit, and you will end up being the perfect fit in a much greater community.
1 Corinthians 12:15-20,
If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” it is not for that reason any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” it is not for that reason any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But as it is, God has arranged each one of the parts in the body just as he wanted. 19 And if they were all the same part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.