“I am going there to prepare a place for you.” “Life is a quest, a search for fulfillment and completion.” “The right place.” “There’s a place for us. Somewhere a place for us, Peace and quiet and open air, Wait for us, somewhere . . somehow, some day, somewhere!” Those lyrics voiced a generation’s search – maybe everyone’s search. Lives are spent looking for something, usually without knowing what that something actually is. Some people look for safety, a place without fear or danger. People look for success, usually for the recognition or independence that it promises. People look for comfort, a place that is without stress or striving. Others look for meaning, a place of service and contribution where their life makes a difference. Everyone is looking for something. That’s what gets you up in the morning, motivates you to give your best, and keeps you going when you feel like quitting. Life is a quest, a search for personal fulfillment and completion. Some spend their whole life and never find that, wasting a lifetime looking for the right things in the wrong places, or looking for the wrong things altogether. Their philosophy could be summed up in these words; “There is no place anything like this place anywhere near this place, so this must be the place. ” Too many people eventually settle for the next best thing. They finally accept what comes the closest to their search. What are you looking for? Everything you do – your goals, your choices, your relationships, your effort, your sacrifice – are ultimately motivated by your search. Wouldn’t it be best to know what that is, and what it should be? I would suggest that this common, lifelong quest is a spiritual longing for where it all began – in personal relationship with the Creator, in a perfect Garden, in productive service, with pleasant companionship. . Wouldn’t you agree with me that everything else pales in comparison with that? Jesus said that throughout your lifetime He would be busy preparing such a place just for you, but you will never find it here and you will never find it on your own. “In My Father’s house are many places; if it were not so, I would have told you, for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going . . I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.” I believe that deep down in the heart of every man and woman there is the innate sense that the wrong place at the end of life is to be forever separated from God. If that separation is true now, it will remain true then. God put that there so you would not waste your life searching for the wrong things in the wrong places. Fine your place in Christ Jesus where you truly feel at home. God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13, NLT For we live by believing and not by seeing. ~ 2 Cor. 5:7, NLT By his wounds you have been healed. ~ 1 Peter 2:24b, NLT
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:39:22 +0000
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