Are you feeling insignificant? Nothing seems to be going your way?

Matthew 1
2Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, 4Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse, 6and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife, 7Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa, 8Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram, Jehoram the father of Uzziah, 9Uzziah the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 10Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah, 11and Josiah the father of Jeconiah[a] and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. 12After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13Zerubbabel the father of Abihud, Abihud the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor, 14Azor the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Akim, Akim the father of Elihud, 15Elihud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob, 16and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.

Luke 3
32the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon,[a] the son of Nahshon, 33the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram,[b] the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 34the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, 35the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, 36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 37the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Kenan, 38the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
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There you have the complete geneology of Christ! Christ is the most significant person who has ever lived! We are all able to live in heaven someday if we believe in Christ! In my opinion, that makes Him THE most important person in my life, ever! He loved me, and everyone else, enough to give up His place in heaven to come down here, to die on the cross to cover my sins, to be raised again so that I too can be raised after death to heaven! Whew! Good news!

Now, what about between heaven and now? That is the hard part! Yes, yesterday, I did what I was supposed to. I made it through the day without dropping the ball with my students. At the end of the day though, I realized I had focused on everything but God. I felt tired, worn out, negative, unsure if I had made any kind of impact on anyone, much less was a representative of Christ's love. Bummer feeling!

Then I got up this morning, realizing I was feeling the way I was because I hadn't spent the time I should have studying, praying, and talking to God. I realized if I want to be with Him all day long, to know He is in my heart and mind all day, I have to make the effort to seek Him...studying His Word, talking to Him. I feel insignificant when I forget Him throughout the day. Then I realize He has a plan for me. I don't know what it is usually, maybe it is terribly insignificant in my eyes, but is anything really insignificant when God is in charge? 

We have to remember God uses EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE  for His plans. We may be a small part, but we are a part of a big master plan. In the genealogy list above, we don't recognize all the names in Christ's genealogy. There are no books written by those people. No acknowledgement of most of them in the Bible beyond Christ's genealogy. Yet, it took all those people, and their wives, to get to Christ. That was God's plan all along.

So, however insignificant your day has been, however insignificant you feel you are right now, however unfair you feel you are to contribute to any plan you have much less God's, remember the genealogy it took to get to Christ. For thousands of years God put people in places they needed to be in order to get to Christ.

No one is insignificant...even when they are at their lowest or worst. God is using you right now for something you will probably never see and won't know about until heaven. Keep your eyes on Him, the one who owns the universe and has a plan for everyone and everything...and that includes you!