Monday, July 4, 2011

That is Who You Are...

If I'm honest, I can get through life with relative ease.

I find that I do not need people. I do not need things. I sometimes can even go without money. More often than not, I find that I can turn on auto-pilot, ignore what's going on around me, focus on my goal and get there.

But that goal, when I arrive, is never truly satisfying.

If the goal is money, I always want more. If the goal is fame, I'm never famous enough. If the goal is pride, someone is always better. If the goal is a woman, there's always someone prettier.

We all do this. If we aren't able to admit it, we all see it. We all jump at the opportunity to point out someone who is sustained by money, greed, lust, fame, negativity or anything else it may be.

When it comes to created things there is nothing that fills a soul that longs to constantly be filled. Whether this is our own, or others'.

I have nice clothes. Clothes that will never satisfy me.
I have an iPhone. An iPhone that will never completely satisfy me.
I have a very expensive and very exquisite guitar. An instrument that will only disappoint in its inability to fully and completely satisfy me.

When it comes down to it, God is all that will fully satisfy me. I hate cliches, but the statement is no less true. It only becomes cliche when the zest and power behind it is gone, which at times, it is for me.

So this is what the Holy Spirit brought me to today to curb this fickle, wandering, unfaithful heart that yearns for satisfaction in the wrong places. A desire to never be satisfied without knowing who God is more.


O God, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my inner self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and is faint for You, in a dry and weary land where no water is.

So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory.

Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.

So will I bless you while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.

My whole being shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips

Psalm 63:1-5