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Living With Significance

Many of us are passionately engaged on the road towards success, but if we were to be questioned as to whether or not we are living a life of significance, we may not have an immediate answer to that question. Living with significance takes much planning and purpose. We need to clearly understand our values and goals. This is something that can become lost in day-to-day living. However, it is not something that is unattainable. Get on the track towards living a life of significance with this single-lesson online study.

On what things do you base your significance?

How would you define significance?
What does a person of significance look like to you?

If possible, think of at least one person who has made a significant impact on you or your community. What key elements characterize his or her life? What made the impact? Is significance based totally on what one does, or can a person who is weak, inexperienced or young make a significant impact on your life? Is there significance in the life of a child or an invalid?
What builds significance in your life?

There are many things that people sense give them significance. One factor in living with significance is purpose. How might someone who has a well-defined purpose have an advantage in living a life of significance? How do you think passion might relate to this?
If suddenly you could not “do” anything to help others or to meet someone else’s hopes for you, would you still have significance? Explain why you answer as you do.
What are the benefits to living a life of significance?

An equally valid question may be, what are the benefits of recognizing your significance to God and others?
How do you overcome the obstacles on the road to living with significance? See Isaiah 43:2, Phil. 4:13 and 1 Cor. 10:13; how might one of these passages encourage you when you face obstacles?)

There is a significance based on who one is, and there is also a measure of significance in what one does. Consider both sides of this issue as you answer. Another way of looking at significance would be to evaluate whether your significance comes primarily from tasks completed or from relationships. Do the obstacles you face in each of those areas differ?
What are some of the barriers that hinder your influence? How do you overcome them?

It is very easy to see other people as the most significant barriers. Yet we cannot control others, and so need to focus more on what is within our own area of responsibility or control. Are there barriers which are truly in your own sphere of responsibility? If so, is there anything you can do to minimize or overcome one of those barriers in the weeks and months ahead?
When your life is over, what things do you want to be remembered for?

It’s helpful to look at what you want the end of a project to look like, in order to best guide your steps toward that end. Consider what you’d like “the end” to be like in your family life, your relationship with God and His people, your life calling (career or otherwise), and in your community.
What additional thoughts or questions do you have on this study?

Read the following verses: Philippians 4:6-9, Psalm 27:14 and 37:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Hebrews 13:5-6, Isaiah 26:3 and 40:28-29, 1 Peter 5:7, John 14:27, Romans 8:6.
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Living With Significance

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