I've been thinking about a lot of things lately. First, how humanity is in deep need of help. Working at a restaurant, I really see that people are greedy, rude, good-for-nothing babies who complain about everything and are content with nothing... myself, included in that over-generalization. People complain about the food, the service, the temperature of the room, or even the place they are sitting CONSTANTLY. What is it in humanity that is so discontent?
We are all searching for something to fulfill us. Something to make us happy. We want to feel like we are getting something, going somewhere, amounting to somebody, but few of us really feel as if we're really reaching it. Ecclesiastes talks about this human condition. We seek happiness in so many things: wealth, popularity, property, success, even wisdom, yet none of us really have arrived as we feel we want to...
I used to look at people with wisdom, pitying them because I knew that if they were treating me with anything less than grace, compassion, respect, and love, that they were in deep need of those things themselves, and had yet to experience a Savior in that day... If someone were to treat me poorly at work, it was because they need a savior, and then whether their treatment was purposeful or not, it didn't matter because all I wanted was for them to experience Christ through me.
See, I am no exception to this desire to amount to something, or gain something valuable. I want it just as much as everyone else. I long for it. I crave it. I seek after it so often. But God. But God has given us everything we need and more. He is going to take all my needs and fill them. He is the One who grants me contentment and provides joy to my heart, and he is the ONLY one who can do so. If I seek for joy and contentment anywhere else - money, status, popularity, property, or wisdom - I will never attain what I'm actually seeking for.
So, while I am rarely happy with my current job, oddly, it hardly matters. You know why? as a familiar song sings:
Christ is enough for me.
Everything I need is in you.
Everything I need.
Christ is my reward and all of my devotion.
There is nothing in this world that can ever satisfy.
Through every storm,
my soul will sing
no turning back
to GOD BE THE GLORY.
Lord, let this be the authentic cry of my heart because I KNOW and have experienced that I only have joy and contentment in you because only you are lasting. Only you are worthy of all my devotion and the whole of my life. Let everything else fade away.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
and the things of earth
will grow strangely dim
in the light of his
glory and grace.
- The Potter's Pottery
