The Source of my Significance

Last night Bryan and I were watching videos on the "I am Second" website. If you've never visited this website, I highly recommend it. It contains video testimonials meant to inspire people to live for God. These are the testimonies of all sorts of people, from your "average joe" to well known actors, athletes, and musicians. We watched several of these videos but one testimony has really stuck with me. LeCrae is an American Christian Hip Hop artist who is on fire for God! His testimony is so inspiring. There was one thing he said in the video that I haven't been able to get out of my head. LeCrae said, "Jesus is the Source of my significance."

I have struggled with self esteem issues my entire life. As a child, a teenager, a college student, a young teacher, a new wife and mother, I have searched for significance in a million different places. Once I truly surrendered my life to Christ, I finally found that significance. I've been perplexed by this change in my life since my complete surrender but I didn't have the words to describe it. When LeCrae said, "Jesus is the Source of my significance" it was like a bell started dinging in my mind. That's it! I've tried to be significant because of my appearance, my good grades, my popularity, my ability to teach children to read, my clean house, my belongings, my role as wife and mother, my cooking, my creativity, etc. I have allowed my emotions and the way I view myself to be based on how significant I am to others. Its a shame but its true. Now, I am starting to realize that there is nothing I can do to earn significance and how significant I am to people really doesn't matter at all. I AM SIGNIFICANT because of Jesus. He loved me enough to give His life for me. No matter what I have done or how I fail in the future, Jesus finds me so significant that nothing can separate us.

There is an overwhelming comfort to be found in that truth. I don't have to put on a show. I don't have to try to be perfect. I don't have to be consumed by other's judgmental thoughts towards me. I don't have to be a certain weight or wear the most fashionable clothes. I don't have search for my significance because Jesus is that source!

Today I am thankful that my Jesus doesn't love me because I am significant but instead, I am significant because Jesus loves me. Knowing that Jesus is the Source of my significance lifts a huge burden off of my shoulders. I am also thankful for LeCrae's testimony. He is such a great example of God's ability to transform any life. His testimony reminded me that God has never used anyone because of their significance. Moses, Mary, Abraham, David, Noah, and all the other Biblical characters were all just ordinary sinners but God made them significant by using them in His story. What a blessing it is to know that the Source of my significance also has a plan that includes me!

Thank You Jesus for being my Source of significance. Thank You that nothing I've done or will ever do will change the fact that I am significant to You. Thank You for allowing me better understand how You've changed me life.


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