I long to have a life of significance. While this is a God-given desire, it is easy to define significance in my own terms instead of in God’s terms. I often feel like the larger my circle of direct influence, the more significant I will be. God constantly has to remind me that it’s not about numbers, but about obedience. My heart cries out to be somebody, and God points me to the cross.

…have the same mindset as Christ Jesus, who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Philippians 2:5-8

Jesus made himself nothing, and he even had to lose his Father in that final moment on the cross (…My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Mathew 27:46). I will never have to lose God’s presence because he did it for me. I didn’t have to bear the weight of being nothing, the vast empty absence of being nothing, the vacuum of being nothing. That would suck the life out of me! I am humbled and grateful that God fills me with His breath of life and that I will never have to be “nothing.”

Please help me only be what you made me to be, to find my bestowed value in you, and to let go and die to “being something.”