{"id":39221,"date":"2026-02-10T18:09:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39221"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:30:39","slug":"260211-insignificance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260211-insignificance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Insignificance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39225 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260211_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260211_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260211_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do we matter? We fear we don\u2019t. In Luke 12:6 Jesus says, \u201cAre not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God\u201d (ESV). One penny would buy two sparrows. Two pennies, however, would buy five. The seller threw in the fifth for free. Society has its share of fifth sparrows: indistinct souls who feel dispensable, disposable, worth little.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to deal with the fear of not mattering, the fear of insignificance. Why does God love you so much? You are his idea. And God has only good ideas. \u201cFor we are God\u2019s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago\u201d (Ephesians 2:10 NLT).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39136 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1-unnamed-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we matter? We fear we don\u2019t. In Luke 12:6 Jesus says, \u201cAre not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God\u201d (ESV). One penny would buy two sparrows. Two pennies, however, would buy five. The seller threw in the fifth for free. Society has its share of fifth sparrows: indistinct souls who feel dispensable, disposable, worth little.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to deal with the fear of not mattering, the fear of insignificance. Why does God love you so much? You are his idea. And God has only good ideas. \u201cFor we are God\u2019s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago\u201d (Ephesians 2:10 NLT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39226,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39221\/revisions\/39226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}