Search for Significance

Search defined by Websters: to explore or examine in order to discover
Significance defined by Websters: the quality of being significant or having a meaning

As of late I have been wondering about my significance, I ask myself am I making a difference?
How can my significance be measured? Who or what am I finding my significance in? All of these are questions I find myself asking while I am driving alone heading home.

As Many of you may know I am 27 year old male( Man I am getting old). I have worked with teenagers since I was 18, Well actually I was 17 because I became a youth leader the day after I graduated( thanks Pastor Darrel Bucher). What a great time it has been... I have had the opportunity to work with teenagers from all walks of life. I have worked with teenagers who's parents have a lot of money and I have worked with teenagers from the Ghetto's who's parents are not even in their lives. Oh the fun to be able to invest my life in so many.

When I begin to think about the time that I have invested into students, I begin to ask this question to myself... am I really making a difference?

After I ask that question it is usually followed closely behind with How can my significance be measured?, Now this one that is hard to answer is it in how many projects I am involved in or how many things that I have done with the youth group, or how bout how many times i have spoke in different locations... I don't know that I have the answer to this question. Significance is hard to measure that is what I have decided.

The third question that I find myself asking is one that really puts your life into perspective Who or what am I finding my significance in? This is the question that really gets me thinking. So often I look toward the things that i have done rather then what is ahead of me and try to gauge my significance. So many times I look @ those around me and judge myself according to an earthly scale. I often find myself saying....Look @ him/her they are more successful then you.... they have it put together better then you... Wow Look @ them... This is usually when I get frustrated with myself an feel like I am not worth anything....

So like I have told you.... I am in this place where I am searching for significance. What am I here on this earth for. I know that I have a greater purpose. and I know who it can be found in.

In Christ alone will my significance be found, in Christ alone will my significance be measured, and with Christ alone will I make a difference.....

So I leave you with this for 2007 and in 2008 I hope to be found searching for true significance with my perspective CHRIST focused...

Happy New Year,
Jim E