One of my favorite spin-offs to come from the animated Star Wars: Clone Wars series is the “Bad Batch”… a group of “failed” clones who were deemed unfit to serve alongside the rest of the clone troopers due to their perceived imperfections. Originally considered defective, each member of Clone Force 99 revealed that while they weren’t designed exactly like their clone brethren, they were uniquely enhanced in ways that made them the perfect choice to take on and complete specific missions that only they could accomplish. From elite sniping skills to an unmatched technical intellect, each seemingly inferior clone’s limitations were actually their superpowers… and when they combined them together into one unit they were unstoppable.

We all struggle with seeing ourselves as being “fearfully and wonderfully made”, especially when parts of us and our lives contain what we consider to be imperfections when comparing ourselves to others. But the Lord designed each of us in a manner that is both unique as well as perfectly aligned for our specific calling in life, and those things we wish we could change are meant to be placed into His hands to support the completion of our missions. When we look in the mirror we aren’t looking at a mistake… we are each exactly what the body of Christ needs.

For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. Psalm 139:13-16

For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them. Romans 12:4-6a

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