Significance

Significance – Important, having meaning. If we break it all down, our common goal in life is to be significant, to be important, to have a life of meaning. It’s sad that those who choose not to marry designate their “partner” as their “significant” other. This apparently is meant to indicate that the person is important and that the relationship has meaning. The person is apparently not important enough to pledge eternal fidelity to, or to proclaim before God and mankind, but that’s another story.

Our search for God is, at it’s essence, a search for confirmation that we are important that our life has meaning. God has placed this need for significance in our hearts. We have a need that, ultimately, can only be filled by relationship with the creator. Our mission, then, is to make others realize their significance. To do that we have to convince them they are important to us before we can show them they are important to God. This idea is at the heart of the Make a Friend, Be a Friend, Bring a Friend to Christ method of evangelism.

Significance is important not just in defining our relationship with God or the manner in which we share His love with the lost. It’s at the heart of all of our important relationships. Our spouse, our kids, our friends, all need to know that they are important to us. The nature of that importance, of course, differs based on the relationship. But we have to be careful not to slip into presuming those we love know that they are significant. We have to show and confirm that significance daily. The truth that God loves them is made real by the confirmation of the truth that we love them. They are significant because God loves them and He loves them through us.

So at the heart of a joyful and fulfilled life is a life dedicated to making others know their importance. That presumes that we minimize our own importance. When we become confident that our God sees us as important, we don’t have to spend our lives confirming our importance to our selves. We can spend our time confirming the significance of others, the ones God has given us as spouse, or child, or grandchild, the ones He has blessed us with as friends. And the others, who he has given us as mission, the ones that need to know Him and whose path to that knowledge is knowing they are significant to some one else.

We are the hands, feet and heart of God. He shows His love for others through us. He makes His consideration of them as significant through our confirming agape love for them. It’s awesome to consider that the ones we love confirm their significance by our confirmation that they are significant to us and that confirmation also confirms that they are significant to God.

We have a mighty task that can only be done by the grace of God and the surrender of self. God has a lot of love to show and we have a lot of significance to confirm.

Don’t just sit there wallowing in your self-pity. Go tell someone they are significant to you and to God.

Then be blessed.

Nick

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