We do not want to feel overly important or even to focus on our importance as that is pride.
Finding the right balance of obedience and purpose is what we need.
We do matter, otherwise we wouldn’t be here.
If our life was done, if our days were over, God would take us home.
So, we can always realize that while we are on Earth, it is for a reason.
It is not just any reason. We have found our purpose in Christ.
That’s where we can get off the mark by forgetting that.
If our purpose is in Christ, and we are following Him,
shouldn’t we have spectacular things happening all day long?
We can get off focus. The worst thing is to focus on ourselves.
Keep Jesus as the preeminence.
If He is our focus, we are always doing what we’re supposed to do.
And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead;
that in all things He might have the preeminence. Colossians 1:18
By keeping God in all our thoughts as the psalmist describes.
Well, he doesn’t say we should keep God in all our thoughts,
but some are scolded for not having God in all their thoughts:
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalm 10:4
Does that mean God is not in any of his thoughts? That cannot be.
Even the wicked think of God from time to time.
The idea that we do not think of God at every moment in our decisions, in our actions,
realizing that He is listening and watching and a part of us, that we share our lives with Him,
is how I understand His desire that He be in all our thoughts.
Our importance is in Jesus and to Jesus.
We are important to God. That is what matters. That is all that matters.
He provides for all of our needs and He encourages us in Him and His ways so we can be vessels for Him.
This is where our importance is found.
Our concern of our importance is to be given to Jesus, to rest in His love and His care and do as He asks.
There is no unimportance in our efforts for Him, whatever that means,
whatever it is He is asking of us each day, to believe and to love and to share the gospel.
It is in Him we find our importance. Do not look elsewhere, it will lead to emptiness and disappointment.