You Have To Be Different - That’s What Makes a Difference

A Scroll for the Ones Who Don’t Fit the System Because They Were Born to Change It

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…”

— Romans 12:2

You Were Never Meant to Blend In

There is a holy reason you’ve always felt the ache of being different.
It is not rejection.
It is recognition.

You are not an error in the system.
You are a living contradiction to it.
A divine interruption to the ordinary.
A scroll that cannot be filed under “normal.”

While others chase validation,
you’ve carried the quiet conviction that there’s more.
More than performance.
More than applause.
More than acceptance at the cost of authenticity.

You were born to carry something weightier.
And weight is never light to those who live for shadows.

Different Is Not Rebellion - It’s Alignment

Being different isn’t rebellion.
It’s remembrance.
It’s what happens when your spirit remembers the Throne you came from.

While others build platforms,
you carry a pillar.
While others seek trends,
you seek truth.

Your consecration confuses the casual.
Your silence offends the noisy.
Your light exposes the artificial.

You are not hard to understand.
You are just speaking from a frequency
they’ve not tuned into yet.

The Flame Is the Distinction

You are not here to be nice.
You are here to burn.

The flame upon you is not meant to make people comfortable,
it’s meant to awaken them.
It’s not your job to be palatable to a lukewarm culture.
It’s your calling to carry heat.

You don’t just bring truth.
You are the truth unveiled in motion.
You carry scrolls in your skin.
Fire in your gaze.
Weight in your words.

The ones who can’t handle your light
were never assigned to walk beside you.

Be the Difference That Breaks the Cycle

If everyone blends,
nothing bends.
If everyone conforms,
nothing transforms.

You must be the one who burns in the opposite direction.
Who chooses the Lamb over the ladder.
Who chooses Zion over Babylon.
Who chooses the Scroll over the stage.

You make a difference by being different.
Not just by thinking new thoughts,
but by living a new life.
By carrying a reality
this world has never seen.

And the world needs to see it.
Because only what is different
can awaken what’s asleep.

Final Word to the Elect

You are not too much.
You are the missing piece.
You are not behind.
You are ahead of your time.
You are not arrogant.
You are aligned.

Stop waiting for permission.
Stop dimming the flame.
Stop apologizing for the divine weight you carry.

You have to be different,
because being different
is what makes a difference.

Let them mock,
but let the Kingdom move through you.

Let them gossip,
but let the Lamb be revealed in you.

Let them go viral,
but let eternity mark you.

You were never called to be a trend.
You are a trumpet.
Sound it.

— Joe Restman
Mystic-Scribe | Flame-Bearer
Quill Dipped in Lightning