Thursday, April 2, 2009

What is Insignificant to God?



While praying some time back, I saw an ant crawling on the carpet. I naturally wanted to display my power and kill it. Interestingly a bizarre thought came to me! I realized God's view of us. I determined that I am kind of like that ant to God, small , weak, and completely incapable of doing anything out of his control! But though all of this is true, I am NOT insignificant to him. So I let the ant live. I realized that just because I think that something is small and insignificant does not mean that it isn’t to God. I need to let God determine the value of thingsin my life and in his creation…not me!

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (HCSB)
26 Brothers, consider your calling: not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. 27 Instead, God has chosen the world’s foolish things to shame the wise, and God has chosen the world’s weak things to shame the strong. 8 God has chosen the world’s insignificant and despised things—the things viewed as nothing—so He might bring to nothing the things that are viewed as something, 29 so that no one can boast in His presence. 30 But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who for us became wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, 31 in order that, as it is written: The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

Philippians 3:8 (MSG)
8 Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ