Finding Significance

Significance...we all long for it.  It's what give us purpose, importance, meaning.  We want significance with our parents, our siblings, our spouses, our children, our friends, co-workers.  To me, the opposite of significance is loneliness, worthlessness, and feeling lost...like a small child, alone on a busy street. There are so many souls who don't have a loving place where their story begins.  Their core is empty because the people who should be filling it have let them down.  When we don't have significance, we don't have hope.  And when we don't have hope, no life can be found in us.

When we don't have that anchor of belonging and acceptance, I believe that is the tipping point where we see people begin to act out, to rebel, to question everything in their existence.  How can we find significance?  How can we have a sense of belonging and joy if the people we crave significance from are absent or abusive or self righteous?

There is one who gave it all for you.  He paid the price and sacrificed His very life.  He bore the lashes, hung on the cross, carried your sin, sickness and disease on His body because you were worth it to Him.  That kind of love takes away loneliness, worthlessness and being lost.  He can take the place of those who have let you down, abused you and left you.  You are significant to Him.  "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down His life for His friends." John 15:13

My friend, you have no greater love than the love of Jesus.  You have no greater significance than you do in Him.  If man has let you down, turn to the one who will never leave you nor forsake you.  Give your heart to the one who knows every hard place you've been to and through.  He will fill that void in your heart with hope and joy.  Let Him settle in your heart, once and for all, that you are worth dying for.  Your story can begin anew with your heart full of purpose, importance and meaning.

Listen to this testimony by the rapper Lecrae.  He found significance and you can too!  (You can turn off my music player to the right in order to hear the video)




From His Lap,