Full of It. (Fulfillment of course)

Have you ever come home from a busy day starving? We mean really STARVING. We mean you are SO hungry that you will open the fridge and eat anything and everything in sight, doesn’t matter if it’s healthy or not, you just want to ease this tremendous feeling of hunger. And sometimes after, we feel a bit guilty eating two pieces of chocolate cake, a donut, and half a bag of chips. But we deserved it right? After all, we were on the run all day, and we needed SOMETHING to fill us for this particular moment.

Believe it or not, this analogy, with a host of multiple different circumstances, can also spill into our personal lives, and in some cases have detrimental repercussions if we don’t catch it early.

What do we mean?

Often in this life, we try to fill our lives with things and or experiences. These things look like clothing, cars, exercise, houses, cigarettes, booze, physical appearance, drugs, sex, food, careers, school; the list goes on, but you get the picture.

Jesus tells us,

“Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal,” (Matthew 6:19-20).

How often do we feel completely satisfied with these things? Once we think we have reached the ultimate goal in any of these areas, are we content and fulfilled? Do we drink one glass of wine and think this will be enough to fulfill my desire of pleasure for this single moment? Or does next weekend come and we find ourselves in the same bad habit?

Let’s jump in this even deeper.

If you find yourself in an unhealthy habit with these things, look deeply into yourself and be honest. You may find it then and there, but other times it may take a while. Regardless, all of these things are a form of self-medication and a search for something to make us whole again. Someone who drinks excessively may convince themselves that this moment of unruliness is for a simple fun-night-out, but let’s face it, we don’t get wasted to be our best self. Often, we get wasted because we are trying to hide, disguise, forget, and even heal a broken part of us. These broken parts look like anxiety, depression, low-self-esteem, anger, adverse past memories, etc.

Our true satisfaction and fulfillment comes in Christ and is assaulted and insulted everyday.

God needs to be at the forefront of our lives on order to be content, fulfilled, and satisfied. Period.

If not, we are on a path of chasing what we ourselves think makes sense for our lives, but it only ends up allowing us to chase things that never really have a finish line. God wants to be your peace giver, trust earner, and chain breaker.

Scripture tells us,

“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from the heart of anyone who believes in me,’” (John 7:37-39).

Friends, let’s stop putting a Band-Aid on issues that want to engulf and pose a threat to our contentment. Let’s be real and authentic to ourselves and God. Just like the analogy about over indulgence in food, we all find ourselves hungry for something in this life to give us a sense of being full and satisfied at one point or another, and more often than not, we end up becoming more broken than when we first started. We hope that even if you don’t see it now, you will come to the revelation that Jesus is the only thing that can keep you full forever. Hallelujah!

And so, we leave you with this Word,

“Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty,” (John 6:35).