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Direction in the Path of Significance

There is really a direction which leads to significance. Your significance is the same as your destination and the direction is how you get there. It is a sort of the map pointing you towards your destination or towards the path that you travel towards significance. The Lord did not withhold the direction of his journey to significance from his disciples. The direction of His journey was stated explicitly in statements such as “From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day” [Matthew 16: 21]. You do not chart your direction towards significance just as you do not determine what your significance is. God charts the direction in which you must travel and also determines what your significance is.
The path towards significance is neither a free ride nor an easy street. It is an obstacle course. An “obstacle course” is a series of challenging obstacles an individual or a team must navigate in the course of an expedition. Obstacle courses can include running, climbing, jumping, crawling, and even balancing elements with the purpose of testing endurance. Sometimes obstacle courses involve mental tests and are dotted with signs. Some of the signs are navigational while others are cautionary. Just as in obstacle courses, our journeys toward significance have navigational as well as cautionary signs, curves, bends, and even some stop signs. These are the challenges that we encounter in the direction of our journey towards significance.
Direction could and should change with purpose awareness. The direction towards your significance should be different from your direction before you became aware of your purpose. One cannot travel the road to significance successfully through ignorance but through knowledge. And knowledge always wins over ignorance. The idea of the “two ways” relates to spiritual direction [Matthew 7: 13-14]. It is then quite possible for a man or a woman to be traveling in the wrong direction. You could achieve notoriety but you can neither achieve significance nor accomplish your God-determined purpose if you are traveling in the wrong direction. The wrong direction could appear easier than the right direction. The wrong direction could appear to have fewer bumps and fewer curves than the right direction. But traveling in the wrong direction will never take you to significance. The Bible is the only proven compass of life’s direction. What do you think?
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