The Lasting Basis of Your Significance
Mankind has inherent worth and significance by God’s design. While people strive for significance through heroic feats or silly posts, Christians recognize our inherent significance in God’s design, purpose, and love for us.
Consider God’s purpose in creating us: you and I were made for a relationship with God, intended to reflect His glory, and destined to reign with Christ.
Consider the purpose behind the entire cosmos which was created with that goal in mind: to sustain and demonstrate before us the glory of God. That’s crazy significance.
We were made for a relationship with God, intended to reflect His glory, and destined to reign with Christ.
Psalm 139 affirms our significance as babies in the womb, before doing one good thing or achieving any status whatsoever. As you read this, take it personally; every line gushes with significance,
Psalm 139:13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. 17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
The fact that we are “wonderfully made” and given inherent worth is knowledge vital to our well being (“my soul knows it very well“)! It leads to gratitude (“I will give thanks to You“). God’s intimate knowledge and presence with us even in the womb adds to the sanctity of human life (“Your eyes have seen my unformed substance“). While this world has a way of overlooking us, the Creator of the universe constantly has you on His mind. His thoughts about you “outnumber the grains of sand” (verse 18).
More than this, God demonstrated our (your) ultimate worth by becoming one of us, sacrificing Himself for our sake, and enduring unimaginable suffering to restore our relationship with Him.
You are worth God’s own Son. God the Father gave His Son for you. Christ gave His life for you.
In the gospel, God affirms your worth to Him. What are you worth before the ultimate Determiner of value? You are worth God’s own Son. God the Father gave His Son for you. Jesus gave His life for you.
In Jeremiah 9:23-24, true significance comes not from exalting ourselves but through believing God so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son on the cross in order to buy us back to Himself forever.
True significance comes not from exalting ourselves but through believing God so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son on the cross in order to buy us back to Himself forever.
However much recognition you have in this world, never question your worth or doubt your significance. Instead look to the creation account, the incarnation of Christ, Jesus’ death, and believe this was all for you.