Psalm 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Inner peace, fulfillment, happiness, and joy: These are all things that we seem to be in constant search of, always looking for the next 5, 6 or 12 step plan to achieving these goals. To some these are always elusive and lofty goals at best, while others struggle to keep a grip on the ones they have. For those that struggle to keep a grip, have they actually attained any of them or are the perceptions more important than the reality?
There are times in our lives where everything seems to come together and other times when it has all fallen apart. We search for the answers of the questions of our hearts in so many different places. I love that our society has come to grips with the reality that there is a void and we desperately want to fill it.
I have gone down a road of filling that void with academics, with friends, with parties, with drugs and alcohol, with women; always searching for the same thing, acceptance and love, finally finding that in Jesus Christ. At every turn or bend in the road, I proclaimed that I was being the person I wanted to be, besides whom else could I be? In truth I was always being the person someone else wanted me to be, my parents, my friends, my girlfriend/fiancé/wife, my soon-to-be in-laws, etc.
Being the man God wants me to be, even after I gave my life to Christ has been a difficult and arduous task to undertake. I have wished before for a website, www.hisplan.god, where we can all look up our name and see what His plan is for our lives. It seems like it would be a lot simpler to know then.
On more than one occasion I have seen that we all struggle to understand our identity, our mission and our purpose. The discovery of who I am in Jesus Christ has made all the difference to me in understanding my own identity. Since that day, the search for my mission and my purpose has been underway.
Until then, I live and I learn, I wait and I listen, I love, and I trust and obey. I have hope for a brighter tomorrow. Do you?
Romans 5:1-5
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
Trust and obedience in our Heavenly Father is what leads to a lasting inner peace, fulfillment, happiness, and joy. And He gives us a permanent grip on the reality of that bridged gap in our hearts.
Posted by price at June 10, 2005 02:07 PM | TrackBackThank you, Jeff.
Posted by: Laura at June 10, 2005 04:07 PM