The Search for Significance

We all search for significance.

We share significant events through celebrations of birthdays, anniversaries and new birth.

We detail significant career choices on resumes, to present our best self to a prospective employer.

We strive to be significant, using our gifts and talents to make a difference in our world.

We honor those of great significance with memorials and museums to honor their lives.

Inside each of us is a person searching for importance.  Someone searching to be noticed, to be accepted and worthy for who we are. We toil, work and exert energy to be……to do…..to become. All the while our heavenly Father is watching and longing to tell us….

You are mine. I knew you before you were born and I love you. I knit your very soul together in a perfect way that would best glorify me. You are valued and highly favored. You are important to me.

You see, we’ve gotten it wrong for years. We think that we must work and toil and strive to be significant, when God made us that way from the beginning. We must rest in the fact that our gifts and talents are only ours because He gave them to us. Through those gifts, He makes us significant.  Each of us has been put here for a reason. Our true significance is found only when we submit our will to His and rest in his perfect peace.

Significance may be celebrated, respected, honored and even achieved by human standards, however godly significance can only be found in accepting who He has made you to be. Rest assured that He put you here to make an impact on the world through your life, and quit trying so hard to figure it out on your own. In His perfect place, and in His perfect time He will bring about your significance, whether in this life or the one to come.