If we start to think of ourselves as significant

after considering ourselves insignificant ...

Before Saul became king, he said to the prophet Samuel,

"I am from the smallest tribe of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin,

and my family is the least important among all the families of the tribe.

Why are you saying such things to me?" (1 Samuel 9:21)

Interestingly, David also said to King Saul,

"I am from an insignificant family in my father Jesse's house" (18:18).

It reminds me of how God chooses those whom the world and even themselves

consider insignificant to be His instruments (1 Corinthians 1:28).

However, if we start to think of ourselves

as significant after considering ourselves insignificant,

we will no longer be used as instruments of the Lord

but as instruments of people.