A search for significance
I was walking to one of my Bible classes this evening. It's in a mobile trailer that used to be a dorm that is located across a parking lot tucked away in a corner of campus. I was very alone as I walked across that parking lot. Nobody around. Nothing moving. Still. Quiet. Just me, my heavy backpack, and my thoughts. I felt very small. I got to thinking... how is my walk across that parking lot of any significance in the bigger scheme of things? How am *I* of any significance? The earth is filled with so many people. I am just one of them. And even greater than that is a God who is so immensely powerful and big and wonderful. Who am I? A nothing.
But God has given me, who shouldn't have any significance whatsover, significance. He has seen me as an individual among all the other individuals on earth. He has called me, has saved me, knows how many hairs I have on this ever-shedding head of mine, and has designated a plan for me. He has made my life significant. He has even made my walk across that lonely parking lot significant. I am in His plan. Having me lug my backpack around tonight is in His plan. And all of this is in his larger plan, His overall plan, His plan designed before time began. Amazing, isn't it? I do not deserve this significance. I don't deserve to have a purpose. But I do have a purpose. Because I have a very personal God who did not hesitate to send His son to the earth to become one of us...to be insignificant so that we can have significance. So that we will not die and fade into even more obscurity. Amazing.
But God has given me, who shouldn't have any significance whatsover, significance. He has seen me as an individual among all the other individuals on earth. He has called me, has saved me, knows how many hairs I have on this ever-shedding head of mine, and has designated a plan for me. He has made my life significant. He has even made my walk across that lonely parking lot significant. I am in His plan. Having me lug my backpack around tonight is in His plan. And all of this is in his larger plan, His overall plan, His plan designed before time began. Amazing, isn't it? I do not deserve this significance. I don't deserve to have a purpose. But I do have a purpose. Because I have a very personal God who did not hesitate to send His son to the earth to become one of us...to be insignificant so that we can have significance. So that we will not die and fade into even more obscurity. Amazing.