Have you ever watched a programme that shows how tiny our planet is in our galaxy and how we are positioned in an extremely "insignificant" section of our galaxy. Then you find out how small and insignificant our galaxy is in relation to other galaxies in the universe!!! You can't help but wonder about how significant we are. After all we are nothing but minute particles on a tiny planet that hangs out on the outer edges of a relatively tiny galaxy…… therefore why should we matter? After all if we accept that God created all this magnificence and we are such a miniscule part of it, then what is our role?? Do we even have one?
Well, the fact that God created us in His image immediately makes us significant. He didn't make the galaxies, or the oceans, or anything else for that matter, in His image. Just us. To me, that means a lot. I have been asked, "Well what if we are not the only planet that God put living beings on"? My thinking on that is "So what?" If God chose to populate millions of other planets with people then that would be His choice. It wouldn't make any difference to the fact that He made us, He loves us, so much so that He sent us Son to die for us, and He wants us to spend eternity with Him! As far as I am concerned, that makes us extremely significant!! As for our role, well God has told us that He wants us to love Him and do His will in our lives, but He gave us the choice to either accept Him or reject Him! He gave us CHOICE!! That is significant!! He could have made us love Him automatically, without any say in the matter, but He didn't. He chose to allow us to choose as to whether or not we want to be in relationship with Him.
As miniscule as we may be in the Universe, with lifetimes that are comparatively short, God has taken the time to make each one of us different from the other, nobody shares our fingerprints, nobody has the same dreams and aspirations. God has lovingly crafted each and every one of us to His specific design, for His specific purpose, and yet He still loves us so much that He allows us to choose to come to Him or not!!! The Creator of the Universe loves us, cares about our daily problems, and wants to have a personal relationship with each of us, I'd say that makes us significant, wouldn't you?
