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Finding Your Significance

 Proverbs 23:7:  For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].

Proverbs 4:23:  Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 18:24:  The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A long time ago someone wrote a powerful statement about man and God–

 A person’s purpose is to know God, worship Him, enjoy Him, and serve Him forever.

Our most innate need is the need to be significant – to find purpose and meaning.

This calls for the pursuit of the God who is, rather than the God we want.

To be significant we must answer two questions –
          Who am I?  Why do I exist?

When you discover who you are in Christ, you will understand your purpose. 

When you are contributing to God’s agenda on earth, you become fulfilled. The essence of who you are is found in your identity.

Whoever you are in private determines your actions and decisions in public.

Every person has to deal with four identities:

1.           The person you want others to think you are.

2.           The person you think you are.

3.           The person you really are.

4.           The person God created you to be.

The first three of those identities are determined by the person individually.  The fourth is determined only as the person surrenders to the Lordship of Christ.

The process of becoming who God needs you to be includes: studying God’s Word, intimacy in prayer, and continually practicing righteousness.

The most secure and confident people on earth are those who know who they are in Christ.

The key to your future is found in your daily routine.

• With whom do you associate?
• What places do you frequent?
• What things occupy your time?
• What thoughts permeate your brain?
• What words fill your speech?

What you believe shapes your life.  Where you go determines your relationships. Your relationships affect your character.

One of life’s greatest treasures is a true friend.  Choose your friends carefully since a friend will either add to your life or take away from it.

The Adventure of Becoming Who I Am!

You are never more a man (or woman) than when you embrace an adventure beyond your control, or when you walk into a battle you aren’t sure of winning.

We should see every adventure of our life as an opportunity for initiation.  What are You teaching me, God?  What are You asking me to do or to let go of?  What in my heart are You speaking to?

Oswald Chambers said, “Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is with you.”

Originality and creativity are essential to identity and calling. 

The adventure begins and our real strength is released when we no longer rely on formulas.  God is an immensely creative person and He wants His children to live that way to.

God wants us to know that our battles are personal to Him and He will design personal and unique strategies for each battle.

The theme of our story is how we become human.  What does it mean to become human, be a real man, a real woman?  What must we deal with in order to become ourselves, to grow up?

We can’t be human without God.  Human life is a great gift; every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something.  Every part of it is blessed by God and therefore is to be enjoyed.

We can refuse to participate in God, act as if He isn’t our designer, provider and covenant presence.  But when we refuse, we’re less; our essential humanity is less, our lives are diminished and impoverished.

God-thirst is the most powerful drive in us, stronger than all the drives of sex, power, security and fame put together. 

To be God-chosen is to be God-anointed, God-assigned and God-defined. Once you know who you are, you acquire a God-dominated imagination.  You practice the presence of God and His presence captivates your thinking about your responses to life.

The most personal, most significant, most human thing we ever do is to believe in and trust in God.

And I’ll leave you with this…your thumbprint is God’s way of reminding you of how unique and special you truly are!