Daily Gratitude Year 9- Day 350: Today, I am grateful in Him we find everything else.
C.S. Lewis always makes me think. He has a way of lassoing deep theological thoughts and making them easier to grasp. At the very least, he makes me ponder old scriptures with new eyes.
This quote is great. It addresses the great pursuit of "finding oneself", a message the world pushes over and over again. But self love is not fulfilling. It is a cup that never gets full.
“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
In ourselves, we cannot find satisfaction. Our souls were designed with a God shaped puzzle piece. Only He can fill that hole. He is our missing piece. He is our missing peace.
On the farm, are years with bumper crops. There are seasons of floods and drought, too. Faith does not exempt us from this life's troubles. Knowledge... not of who I am, but who I am in Christ.. is where we find our cups overflowing... even when the path is hard.
"You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance." -Psalm 65:11
Isn't that a great passage? It has one of my beloved semicolons to remind us to pause and ponder "even the hard pathways overflow with abundance".
"I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit." -Romans 15:13
Everything we are looking for is found in Him.
Today, I am grateful in Him we find everything else.
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