No matter who we are, we generally feel the need for three things: sustenance, security, and significance. And there are endless options for how we might satisfy those needs that are not Jesus. Don’t take the bait! Jesus wants us to be uncompromising. In this message we'll drill down into that third need – the need for significance. What exactly does it mean to be truly significant in this world? Psalm 8 says, “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” (Ps. 8:1,3-4). We are barely noticeable on a cosmic scale. But then David says, “Yet you have made [us] a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned [us] with glory and honor. You have given [us] dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under [our] feet.” Small as we may be God crowns us with glory and honor. We are his representative image-bearers in this world. We were created to display his glory, exercising a kind of royal dominion over creation. That’s pretty significant – royally significant. So often we are pressured and tempted to settle for lesser significance. But our potential is greater than we can imagine. That’s not opinion. That’s what Jesus says to the church in Thyatira in Revelation 2:18-29. Let’s hear and heed what the Spirit says to us!
