When things are going well, life seems grand. But when I reached a point in my life where the things of life no longer satisfied me, I started searching for more.
I wasn’t sure what I was searching for, but a deep feeling in my spirit told me there is more to life than this. I had always known of God, but it wasn’t until I began to seek Him out for answers to my questions about my life that I began to understand the depth of His love for me.
The word of God tells the whole story about the unconditional love that He has for each of us and the opportunity to know Him more. John 3:16 says, “For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” NLT
I firmly believe that we are all born with a yearning in our spirit. We don’t quite know what we are yearning for, but it’s something. We seek to fill that empty feeling with things of this world, temporal things. Since this world is the only life we know, it seems adequate to gravitate to the things that this world has to offer. The world offers successful careers, an abundance of wealth, and the accumulation of things like houses, boats, and cars, but these things fade away over time. Let me disclose that there is nothing wrong with any of these ambitions, but they are not the things that will satisfy the void in your spirit.
Don’t you agree that the void that you sometimes feel is deeper than these things? If you are in a season where you feel dissatisfied with your life as it is, then I challenge you to begin a journey to find what’s really missing. Here are some action steps you can take this week to begin.
- Take time to reflect on your life as it is now. Write down all the things that you feel satisfy you.
- Journal what you feel is missing in your life.
- Evaluate if you receive or accomplish certain things, would you feel complete?
- Pray
- Talk to a trusted friend, family member, or spouse about what you discovered by completing these steps.
I can attest that there is so much more that God has for you in this life and eternity. It’s never too late to find the real you.
In Christ Jesus,
Sister Lisa M. Walker
