LOST IN A CROWD

Two things make us feel small and insignificant. One comes from the brokenness 'upon' us, the other from the brokenness within us.
 
Everything about mortal life puts everything in a morbid light. Where life has a 'finish line', we scramble to make everything mean something between the 'start' and 'finish'. That's a lot of pressure. That's very little time. And then there is the terrifying analogy of 'making beds in a burning house', in the event there is nothing in the hereafter.
 
We aim for the (American) 'dream', because reality is just too dark. Every grown adult, interestingly, speaking of pursuing the 'dream', when we chastise
children for living in a dream. Faith we mock, and yet dreams we live, cheat, steal and die for.
 
Cutting to the chase here, let's 'hear' the report: God made life perfect, and made mankind in God's own image. Man and woman, are 'like' God, so much so that Jesus silenced some onlookers by quoting Psalm 82:6 and saying, 'You are all gods.' (John 10:34)
 
When we the created reject(ed) the Creator, this rebellion is deep, dark, no floor, and all things unholy; it presents and expresses on different levels, but the same spirit. This world is of this 'spirit' and we live in it (brokenness upon us). This spirit is also from and within us (brokenness within). Taken together - the devil's report and our pride's appetite - we feel insignificant to God.
 
If you read through the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), you will find that God became man, Jesus Christ, and set you back in your rightful reality with God: a spiritual, meaningful, God-imaged individual. Jesus took every man, woman and child, not only in their own right (or 'name'), but beyond that to an even truer, redeemed 'name'. He often changed people's names, to make them even more unique, express that they were 'forgiven' and 'set apart' by him, now and forevermore.
 
(Revelation 2:17; Mark 10:21; Mark 14:1-9)