Significance

I have a tiny globe sitting on my desk... my kids love to play with it. It is a minuscule representative of the world we live in. Even as I write I am pausing just long enough to trace my finger across the North Atlantic Ocean, into and through the land labeled “United States”, then down into Mexico, the South Pacific, New Zealand...

I remember a short lived, but very popular comic strip where the main character, a short, feisty, mussy- haired youngster, stood on a hill, puny and pitiful against a vast expanse of a starry night, shaking his fist and yelling at the sky, “I'M SIGNIFICANT!!!”

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? -Isaiah 40:12

So many of the problems which cause great concern in those who attend our Celebrate Recovery program today seem far too colossal and unalterable to even imagine a solution. The economy, war, disease, addiction, depression, death...

When faced with the the monumental, the imposing, the towering and often times overwhelming realities of this world, we as encourager coaches must recognize, and respond to the hunger for life to have some sort of significance our attendees are feeling.

We must be ready to confidently embrace our own powerlessness, and model the peace Christ has given us in our relationship and purpose in Him. He knows when each sparrow falls, he stores our tears in a bottle, and even the hairs on our head are numbered by an infinite, all-powerful, compassionate and loving God.

When folks walk into your meeting who have been defiantly shaking their fist at the heavens frustrated with society's avalanche of woes, simply encourage them to look to the One who holds the future for a hope that never fades. His plan is impossible to thwart-his love never fails

To you, O LORD , I lift up my soul;
in you I trust, O my God.

-Psalm 25:1

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