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JANUARY 2024 WORD PROMPT
The Freedom of Insignificance
Koinonia Prompt #15: Freedom
There was a time I wanted to be known.
I wanted my voice heard.
I thought what I had to say mattered or was somehow so profound it must be shared. I was right and if people would only listen, they would agree with me. They wouldn’t be able to help themselves because my utterings would be so profound.
External validation filled a craving for self-worth disguised as power.
Those were my feminist activist days and I thank the Lord all that happened before the Internet and social media could immortalize my arrogance.
The Blessing of Insignificance
In his book, “Crazy Love,” Francis Chan provides a beautiful glimpse at insignificance and why God’s love for us is so profound.
He said we are all specks.
Like the person in the role of extra in a movie who gathers family and friends to see them in it, but then has to pause the movie to show them because their presence is a mere blip.
In God’s story, we are all mere blips and there is nothing we can do about it.
