This summer, I heard a couple of phrases that really stuck with me. The phrases were eternally significant and eternally insignificant. They are terms that we’ve probably heard before, but for some reason God really laid them on my heart. These phrases went along with seeking spiritual wisdom and discernment. God has been making it clear in my own life that I need to be discerning what is eternally significant and what is eternally insignificant. When my focus lies in the eternally significant, I feel whole or as if I’m being completed. When my focus lies in the eternally insignificant, I don’t. Examples:
** I’m 27, I’m single, I’ve never really dated anyone:
*ES – I am aware of my singleness, but I am trusting God that He knows what
is best for my life and I also believe that He is sufficient.
*EI – I am aware of my singleness and feel lonely, feel that something
is wrong with me, that God’s made a mistake. I am not trusting Him and I don’t feel that
He is sufficient.
** My body is falling apart:
*ES – I accept the pain and continue to do what is necessary without complaint
*EI – I question God as to why. I use my pain as an excuse to do less, I complain
constantly.
** We’ve been assigned a new duty at school:
*ES – we accept it and do the new duty the best we can and do it without complaint
*EI – I gripe and complain, take on the new duty, but with a terrible attitude and not with
best effort
** Our students make unwise choices:
*ES – We seek to understand why they made the poor choice, pray for them, and do our
best to guide them during this time.
*EI – We make fun of them, we talk about them with other teachers, when they come to
us we treat them with disdain, we look down on them and don’t offer to help.

There are so many more examples of this, but I feel as if we should be looking into His word, to remember where our focus should be. I found reference after reference that applied to this theme or at least were a reminder of Whom it is that we serve.

1. Psalm 103: 1 – 5, 8, 10 – 14, and 19*
2. Hebrews 6:7-12
3. Psalm 90:14 – 17
4. Psalm 19:8,14
5. Psalm 73:21 – 28
6. Psalm 51:6 – 12; 17
7. Hebrews 3:13
8. Hebrews 12: 1-2, 14 – 15
9. Hebrews 6:7 –12
10. Philippians 4:4-9
11. Ephesians 4: 25-29; 31&32
12. Ephesians 5: 19 – 21
13. Proverbs 16: 24
14. Proverbs 17:22

Focusing on the eternally significant will allows us to live in community so much easier, too. I went to a blog-site recently and saw this entry and wanted to share with you, b/c it seems to fit along with not letting circumstances lead us to be complainers.

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Thoughts?
~MKM