Do You Want More?

A question came to me: “have you ever wanted more in life?”

More in life, what an interesting concept. It seems like we all are searching for something, every human has a desire, a desire for something more. We all want to be loved, we all have that void in our life that we oh so desperately want to fill. We try to fill it with girls, sports, music, sex, money, religion, drugs, power, fame, and anything else we can find and it works, for a little while. We fill our void with the “high” we get out of these things and then the high ends and we are back down to were we started. It’s like we’re cursed or something, we know we want something, we know we need something more in life, but we don’t have a clue what it is. It’s like that song:

We were meant to live for so much more and we lost ourselves,

Somewhere we live inside, somewhere we live inside…

And then…

We want more then this world has to offer,

We want more then the wars of our fathers,

And everything inside screams for second life.

Maybe that’s it, that the thought of eternity has been placed into the heart of man. That somehow we’re aware of this idea of eternity, and right and wrong, and the thought of death, even though we rather not think about it. Yet we can’t deny it no matter how long we put it off, because at the same time there is something about eternity that intrigues us.

When you think about this, it doesn’t make sense. How can we, just some random blobs of atoms mixed together, have these sorts of thoughts about things, about wanting more to life. Why should we if we’re just tissue? Just plain tissue doesn’t have these sorts of thoughts about things, questioning the reason for its existence. If what’s real is only what we can see, touch, taste, and feel, we have no hope, for nothing that we’ve been able to see, tough, taste, and feel has ever satisfied us. There has to be a God, cause it’s impossible for atoms to just come together and feel and think this way, there has to be a purpose for our existence.

But what does this have to do with our desires and our need to be loved and want more? Really the only thing that could bring us true happiness, and fulfill our desires, is to fulfill our purpose for our existence. But WHAT is it?!?

God created us with a purpose: to glorify God, worship Him, to enjoy a true relationship with Him, so that we may experience the true happiness and love that only God can give. Yet we chose to rebel, and all that did was hurt us, because it separated us from what we really wanted and needed. Because of that God could of just easily said, “screw you, I made you and gave you everything you wanted, yet you go and dis me in my face! I’ll just wipe you losers out and just make something that doesn’t act like such an idiot!”. But no, He stuck with us and He himself went through our own punishment just so we, if we turn back to him (Jesus) we don’t have to and so we can enjoy living for our purpose again. He lifted the curse upon man so we can experience love again, to grasp the very keys of eternity, and to know that God isn’t our biggest dread and nightmare, in fact to glorify God is what we wanted all along.