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When small children learn to say “I’m important, yo!” it’s cute. It’s also significant, because they are important. At the birth of the world, the Bible dares to suggest, God “created human beings in his own image.” He went on to assign them great importance in the created order: “Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground” (Gen 1:28 NLT). Little children are important because they are human beings, and human beings are important because they are made in the image of God and bear a responsibility, in keeping with their divine likeness, to the kingdom of God.

The danger comes when small children, or grown adults, say “I’m important, yo!” over and over and over again. Somewhere in that repetition their sense of significance morphs into something more sinister: self-importance.

Quoted from the book Deliver Us from Me-Ville by David A. Zimmerman.