Show Me Significance

I remembered the first time I heard about a more comparative message from Louis Giglio from one of his Passion sermon and how he broke down the insignificance of the earth in comparison to the ever expanding universe and it left me with a feeling so small that I found myself losing credibility to my entitlement.

Similarly to this quote where the stars are used to draw attention to our insignificance. The devil has made a spectacle of us by coming up with unnecessary things to do and to be occupied by them. Such is an example when we find ourselves busy doing things that only benefit or entertain the short term but failing to pay attention to the eternity that is told by God. Like distracting a little child to the important things as so we are played by the devil to care about things that does not last.

But so hard a task to do when we are already integrated so deep into a society that defines significance in the self-fulfillment. There are those that are extreme to the point of dropping everything they do and just focus on God alone, living a monastic life. Then there are others that miss out entirely the importance of stewarding their time for the purpose of eternity.

People that truly understands the purpose of life reflects eternity would find themselves a little more conscious about how they spend their life on earth. I have had the pleasure to meet a few of these people; who evidently abandoned they achievements, their comfort, their very own happiness and even to their very own lives and give whatever remaining years of their lives to bringing the message of the Gospel to the un-reached. Their emphasis lingers around the love for God, the love for people, the urgency of the Gospel and very little of their own lives.

I do not know if I can ever find myself being at the level of just focusing on eternity the way some others have. I continually find new levels and faces of selfishness in my own life that surrounds my own fulfillment but not in the fulfillment of God and others.

Even as I often do find a strict awakening of my own self, I pray that I would surrender to eternity more each day, than my trivial pursuits that I may have one way or another claimed it as God's will. There is more to life than what the world can offer except from God and God alone, and I do not want to miss out on what He wants to give.