Our culture tells us that our belonging comes from pursuing the right people, places, and things.
The joy you can get looks broad, but it's only an inch deep.
If you want to be on top of the 'food chain' you will have to fight for
the world's acceptance and approval, to be conformed to the systems and
traditions of this world that violate the true value and meaning of
purity, decency, and anything that is
meant to be good and sacred. The counterfeited joy in all of these only
last for a while though, unless you drag along in vain in order to keep
up.
But that's a secret kept aside as the world's shadows play hide and seek with you.
Instead of satisfying us, it betrays us, lies to us and leaves us hanging into the open to dry with out mercy.
The truth is: the more we pursue and crave for anything or anyone else
besides Christ himself, the more lost and thirst-tier we would be.
No wonder Moses ran from it, Jesus refused it, and Paul counted it as
garbage. Their eyes were fixed on something real and eternal.
The
truth is, God doesn't promise us the world's greatest fortunes, but he
promised to be our bread of life and the living fountain that satisfy
our deepest thirst.
The question is
where do we go to quench our thirsty souls?
Is it at the fountain of fresh water?
Or would we rather choose to kneel down at the shore of salt water that keeps on leaving us more and more thirst-tier than before ?
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