Where do you find significance? Is it in your children, your work, a skill or talent that you have? If so, what happens when your children grow up? How will you feel when you retire? Will you find the same significance when your skills are not as sharp as they once were?

For the Christian, our significance ought to be found in our relationship with God. I think that mostly it is something we don’t think about but that we do actively pursue. To feel like we are important is not a bad thing. I think that we are misguided in our finding significance. When we’re kids we want to be the smartest or the one that saves the baseball game with a home run. There’s nothing wrong with these things unless it is where we find significance as a person. If we have to be the best to count as a person we set ourselves up for disappointment. Enough of these disappointments and we start to question our worth as a human being. This self doubt brings on all kinds of unhealthy things such as depression and anger. Let’s look to Jesus our example. Many times Jesus pointed out His relationship with the Father. “I and the Father are one,” Jesus would say. Jesus could have pointed to the feeding of the five thousand or the healing of the sick but He delighted to point to His relationship with the Father. Jesus certainly did many good works but these works were done out of a love relationship with His Father.

Like Jesus we also need to look at who we are as a result of our relationship with God in Jesus the Christ. If we have received Jesus as our Savior we are the children of God. John 1:12 As far as value is concerned we have been bought with a price. That great price is the very blood of Jesus shed for us upon the cross. What about our works then? Oh let us excel in good works. But let us not find our value or our significance in these things. Let us work, let us serve the living God out of grateful hearts. Let us find our significance in our relationship with God.