Insignificant

It's so easy to look at yourself and think that you're a humble person. The Bible tells us that a man's ways always seem right in his own eyes. In your own mind you put other people first: you're always willing to lend a helping hand; you don't think that you're better than other people and deserve more than them... MOST of the time. The Bible tells us that a man's ways always seem right in his own eyes. However, for everybody I think there is a certain line that we draw in our head between important stuff and unimportant stuff; those unimportant events being the kind that you decide to behave selfishly, thinking, "it's not a sin, it wasn't 'that big a deal.'"

I have lately become baffled by my own proclivity to categorizing certain events or "menial" tasks as more or less significant than others. God revealed to me how pontifical such an attitude truly is several months ago in a most interesting way (which I don't have the room to write here, neither you the patience to read, I'm sure. You can ask me in person if you would really like to hear the epic tale). My eyes were opened to how pompous I had been at so many a waking moment. For me to think that I have the power and omniscience to determine the significance of an action or event in the daunting face of eternity is quite a claim; and yet that is what we are doing every time we categorize events having more significance than another in the realm of eternity, all while playing out this incredible facade of being a humble person.

Some reading this may think I'm being far too harsh; you could be correct. My tone is not condemning though, I assure you; it is on the same plane as urgent and pleading. If I see a young lad sitting in the back of a service by himself and I decide that going back and reaching out to him is not a weighty enough issue for me to get outside my box and extend the love of Christ his way what exactly am I really saying? What are the possible repercussions of such a "small" decision? The first question was rhetorical, the second I leave to your imagination.

Let's take it a step further. God, in His wonder and majesty, shrouded by incomprehensible mystery, is quite obviously much more significant than we are as humans, and could easily start up a new universe and leave us to the pit that we have dug for ourselves. Such a decision, in comparison to all that He is and is able to do, would truly be insignificant, to be quite honest. What would that decision have meant for us?

My point, to rap this post up, is that we need to stop acting on what seems significant to us or not--we don't know the ripples our "small" choices have in eternity--and consider the possibility that it might be the most significant decision for somebody else's life. Before you say, "it's not that big a deal," realize every choice is a fork in the road, one fork being the path of sin, and the other the path of righteousness. There's never a third path. It's ALWAYS black and white, we just try to turn it grey through self-justification. No decision that you ever make will ever be a small ordeal; that's something that's going to be very difficult to convince yourself of. I am by no means convinced of it myself many times, but I believe it's a very Godly principle.It just comes down to the good ol' Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do to you."

Philippians 2:1-11. God is a God of absolutes.