Coach: Ask your student to read out-loud the below title and the text in the two boxes. Then ask them to comment on how often they actually think one way versus the other way.
So, what’s all this got to do with finding significance?
If you see God as approving you mostly when you achieve things according to his expectations, then you will be trapped in a never-ending futile pursuit of walking on the egg shells of His impossibly righteous Holiness—and you will never feel truly and permanently significant.
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On the other hand, if you see God as having already accomplished all the requirements of your righteousness in the finished work of Jesus Christ, you will see Jesus as your Sabbath Rest, and you will be drawn in freedom to a growing intimacy with God. This will be your significance—a significance that is fully provided to you by the finished work of Jesus, and is in no way dependent on your accomplishments.
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An opportunity for spiritual training:
As you seek significance your life, you will see it as either a result of your achievement, or you will see it as something that is amply provided to you by Jesus and is experienced through a growing intimacy with God.
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Viewing what you do as necessary for God to accomplish His plan is a form of arrogance and self-pride. But, viewing your life as an important part of what He is doing is humility
(Philippians 2:13).For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. (ESV)
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Coach: Have your student read the text on the left out-loud. Have them explain what the included Bible verse has to do with what it says. Then discuss the questions and Bible verses below with your student.
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For discussion with your coach:
- How might you better develop a healthy perspective on how the physical world, and your time in it, points to the eternal reality of the Heavenlies (Matthew 6: 10)Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. (ESV)?
- What does it mean to not be swayed by Godless patterns of thought about the visible and invisible world, but instead to develop the healthy perspective that God’s gracious Sovereign Heavenly reign is not something you admire out there, out of reach to you, but it is the presence of God that is being as intimate to you as the air you breathe (Ephesians 1:17-19...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might... (ESV);Colossians 2:6-8)?Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. (ESV)
