Jesus is the face of God. That is what everyone is looking for.
We’re hungry to be seen. He knows you by name. He knows all about you.
We’re craving comfort. He is the Great Comforter, full of grace and peace.
We want acknowledgement. He gives it by dying on the cross for you.
We long to be understood. He knows everything about you, what makes you tick, how you think, the pain you feel, the rejection.
But what do we typically do? We turn away from God and turn toward other people and demand they give us what we want. That’s why marriages don’t work. Our jobs don’t satisfy. Our hobbies get boring. Our children become work instead of pleasure. Nothing we touch fills us.
It was never meant to.
The fullness of joy and pleasures for evermore are only found in Christ.
Until we realize it, we’re doomed to traveling in the wrong direction, where the gravel pits are, where there is no water.
Idols take everything, and give nothing back except pain and disappointment.
Only Jesus is the fountain of life.
What are you waiting for?
Talk to me.
but in other things like lovers, friends, hobbies, travel, power, money, you name it.