There’s a quiet lie that slips into the soul when we’re not paying attention. It doesn’t storm in; it whispers. It tells you you’re small. Forgettable. Just another face in a crowd of billions. It suggests that God may love people in general, but you — your personality, your story, your heart — don’t carry much weight. And truthfully, life can make that lie feel convincing. We get overlooked. Misunderstood. Pushed to the side. We start comparing ourselves to others and quietly decide that maybe we don’t matter as much as we hoped. But that lie falls apart the moment we hold it up to Scripture.
The Creator of the universe did not simply create you and then step back. He did not wind the world up like a clock and leave it ticking. Acts 17:28 (NLT) tells us plainly, “For in him we live and move and exist.” That is not distant language. That is intimate. You are not surviving outside of Him; you are existing within His sustaining presence. The same God who hung the stars chose to stay close to you.
And this is where it gets even more personal. God didn’t just choose to watch humanity from a distance. Through Jesus Christ, He chose to dwell within those who believe. First Corinthians 6:19 (NLT) reminds us, “Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God?” The Holy Spirit does not rent space. He indwells. The Creator of galaxies made your recreated spirit His dwelling place. That decision alone destroys the lie of insignificance.
We have to let that settle. The God who formed mountains and commanded oceans to stay in place intentionally chose to reside within human beings who trust in Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1:13 (NLT) tells us, “When you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago.” He identified you as His own. He marked you out, claimed you, and sealed you with His Holy. That’s covenant language—and it’s the reality every believer in Christ is living in right now.
The enemy’s strategy has always been to minimize what God magnifies. If he can convince you that you are insignificant, you will live cautiously, shrink back from obedience, and question whether your life carries eternal weight. But Psalm 8:4–5 (NLT) shuts that distortion down: “What are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.” Crowned, not discarded. Honored, not overlooked.
And this is where Jesus Christ becomes the center of the conversation. Your value is not proven by your productivity. It is proven by the cross. Romans 5:8 (NLT) says, “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.” Before you achieved anything. Before you were impressive. Before you were spiritually mature. Jesus Christ gave His life. That is Heaven’s declaration that you matter.
Insignificance is a lie that dissolves in the presence of truth. The Creator does not inhabit what He sees as trivial. He does not seal what He plans to discard. He does not sacrifice His Son for something without worth. If Jesus Christ considered humanity valuable enough to redeem, indwell, and transform, then the matter is already settled: we matter to God.
And when that truth finally anchors the soul, comparison starts to lose its grip, insecurity loses its voice, and obedience stops feeling like a performance. It becomes a confident walk with the God who chose to make us His dwelling place. ■
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“We Matter to God”, written for Springfield Fellowship © 2026. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.