Finding Life

The quest to find life here on earth can sometimes cause us to miss what is truly important. The things we think will bring fulfillment can be the very things that keep us from finding what our souls truly need. Sometimes these things are obvious, as when our desires have taken a turn towards the darker lust of the flesh. When we give up searching for true life and give our hearts over to the false life. But sometimes we attach our hearts to things that are good. As we seek life perhaps we find that something that is truly part of our created glory. For some it may be writing or singing. For another it may be part of their calling. A gifted doctor or leader. Maybe even a ministry. These things are part of what God created us for but they are not the point. They are never the point. The point and source of life for our hearts is always God. Now when I say the point is God, I am not talking about a set of rules and regulations to be followed. I speak of a deep and intimate relationship with Him. That is always what God is after. He created us for relationship with Him. Why else would He have sent his son to die for us on a cross. So often I lose that focus and begin to believe that it is the things that give me life. I begin to believe it is in writing or singing that my heart will find life. It is at that point that what was once good can become the very thing that keeps us from God. The action becomes more important than the relationship. To modify a phrase from G. K. Chesterton, these things become "all moonshine; light without heat, reflected from a dead world." Moonshine can be beautiful, but by itself will never bring life. So let those things that bring joy and life to your soul point you ever onward to the true point of life, a deep and true relationship with the father.