Significance

Why was it that Moses was able to accept the Lord's "No" when he pleaded with the Lord to allow him to enter the land?  For all his life Moses had dreamed of this moment, the moment when the people went into the land that God had promised them.  In his dream he saw himself leading the people.  And now the time had come and he would not lead the people.  He had to step aside and let another lead them into the land.  This was bittersweet to the man.  Sweet because the people would possess the land, bitter because he would not be part of it.
Moses might have tasted the bittersweet but he was not bitter in his spirit.  Moses could accept the "No" of God because he did not get his significance from what he did but rather from his relationship with God.
Where do we get our significance?  Is it from our jobs, our possessions, our families, our talents?  It it is from our jobs then what is our significance if we lose that job?  It it is from our possessions then what happens to us when our possessions are gone?  If we base our significance on anything or anyone other than God Himself then there will come a point when we will lose our significance and bitterness will come.  But if our significance is in God then we know that we will never lose the one that brings us significance.  Whatever the world may throw at us cannot take away our significance.