What Is My Significance?

What Is My Significance?

• Your significance means your importance.
• Your significance refers to your personal value, your individual worth.
• A sense of significance is one of your three God-given inner needs. Those three inner needs are:

Love

• receiving an unchanging, unconditional commitment from another for what is best for you

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”  

(John 15:12)

Significance

• knowing the meaning and purpose for your life

“I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills his purpose for me.”  

(Psalm 57:2)

Security

• being grounded with an unshakable sense of belonging and acceptance

“He who fears the Lord has a secure fortress.” 

(Proverbs 14:26)

• Even if you haven’t said these exact words, the following statements express a desire of your heart:
  • “I want my life to count.”
  • “I want my life to make a difference.”
  • “I want my life to be significant.”
  • “I want my life to have meaning.”
  • “I want my life to have purpose.”
  • “I want to have an impact.”
  • “I want to do something important.”

Question: “I’ve always felt insignificant. When comparing myself to others who are more gifted and accomplished than I am, how can I not feel insignificant?”

You already have God-given significance … not because of anything you have done, but because of what Christ has done for you.

• You were significant enough for God to create you in His image.

“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ ”  

(Genesis 1:26)

You were significant enough for the Lord to design a preplanned future for you.

“ ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’ ”  

(Jeremiah 29:11)

• You were significant enough for Jesus to die on the cross for you.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”  

(John 3:16)

Realize that Jesus would not die for anything or anyone insignificant. You, indeed, have God-given worth.

“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?  Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” 

(Luke 12:6–7)