We all matter

  You, I, we all matter. Every day - who we are, how we go about being us, it matters. We do not have the right to diminish ourselves - remember that we have been bought and brought into freedom and should never betray that cost. Should I repeat this? WE do not have the right to consider who we are and what we do as unimportant. If you are a Christian then you were bought by a terrible price (1 Corinthians 6:20). You are important, you are equipped and enabled regardless of what you feel. The Lord has us where we are for a reason - it is not the wrong time or place. Our daily quest should be walking in all we know what this is to be.

  If, in any way, you doubt what I've said... read what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12 beginning in verse 12. We are all equal, but we aren't all the same in all things. Your gift may not be the same as mine, that's why everyone matters and is wanted and needed. v. 18: "But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased." As the clay (Romans 9:21), do you have the right to question the potter? No. You can make your case but the end result is that it is your decision to accept and follow what the potter wants. Will you submit?

  Since we all matter, we need to treat one another as partners in this life so that together we can strengthen the body. We are to supply, each one of us, what has been given to us:

     "...for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the 
      edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the
      faith..." (Ephesians 4:12-13)

This is no small thing because we all think we know 'best' but we are told to esteem one another (Philippians 2:2). However, I've never read that as we are to be one another's floor mats or to never express our opinions. It's often in how we do this that makes for good decisions.

   We aren't blessed with foresight so our understanding is limited by what we see right in front of us. That's why faith is so critical - it is always our choice to act on this faith, to believe that the One who is in charge has our best interest at heart, knows what's best for us and in the situation, and will always be with us in this. Bottom line is that you matter. Ephesians 4 teaches us that when we act as the body and present our gift then; 

     "...the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint 
      supplies, according to the effective working by which every part 
      does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself 
      in love." (16)