My small group is going through a study called The Truth Project. It's a 12 week study and each week we focus on a different aspect of God's Truth. It's a very interesting study and it really gets you thinking about what you believe and why. "Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?" This week's study really hit home with me, and I tossed and turned for a while last night as I wrestled with the concept of Significance. Where do I draw my significance from? And why? What was discussed last night was that we are all born with a desire to be significant. And that the desire was placed there by our creator, so that we'd find significance in Him.
Matthew 4:4 states that Man does not live on Bread alone. John 4:10 talks about never thirsting again. John 6:33 through59 talks about Jesus being the Bread of Life.
I'm sure that by Jesus being our Bread that we need to draw our significance from Him. That the things of this world, the bread we eat here is gone after consumption. And it's not even just bread, it's things like our jobs, our incomes, our giving, our children, our art, and our feelings that are all fleeting. That we try and we try to gain significance from things in this world. I love "Thank you's" and "Job Well Done's", it makes me feel significant. From experience though, once it's said, it's fuel for only a little while before I'm looking for the next "Thank You" or "Job Well Done". Nothing here on earth can satisfy my longing for significance. We drive ourselves each day looking for that piece of significance that will satisfy us to stop looking, but it's never there.
I'm wrestling with this because I haven't looked at my life like this before. I haven't seen that I'm chasing after significance in things of this earth. I haven't seen that I'm not looking for my significance in Jesus. I've been wanting it to be out in the world, to be in success or what the world sees as success. I haven't been wanting it to be in private, like it says in Mathew 6. For if I'm looking for reward here on earth it has been paid in full, but if I'm doing it in secret, for my God, then my reward is in Him.
Have you thought about this in your life? How does this fit into what we are learning in Ecclesiates? Where do you draw your significance from?



















