"Jesus is the all-satisfying treasure." John Piper makes a great point. Uh, yeah, Jesus is this. The real wonder for me is how many people truly know this? Lately, for some reason, I have tried to find my earthly happiness in other things. The only reason I can answer why this would be is because I am human. Other than that, I really do not have a good answer for you. I do not want to make excuses so I am not going to write a list of things I could say to you that would be why I chose to give up Jesus for about two weeks or so. There is not a good excuse. The only thing I can truly say is I have seen the happiness that he stills in the people that search for Him. I have also seen the everyday, monotonous life that people live without searching for Jesus and how unsatisfying it truly is. The last two weeks I have not been blogging, as I am sure that some of you have noticed. I have thrown in a few blogs here and there but nothing like I was doing for the last two and half months of blogging. I can say it was because I was becoming apathetic. I was not working out, eating right (to a point), blogging, reading my books, or my Bible. I attended church, sang on the worship team, had Bible studies all within the midst of my not caring or not really searching out God anymore. Satan got a hold of me and I start making decisions like I used to before I really knew how to look for God and learn about Him. I allowed Satan to become my thoughts and giving into temptations instead of just passing them by. I honestly wish I were still where I was when I started this blog but I can tell you I fell away. Now, I need to regain my ground and try again. I know I will falter because I am only human and Satan is stronger than me. However, my pastor did make a great quote that has stuck with me since he said it a few weeks ago. "If you read your Bible everyday, it is much more likely you will not give into temptation." He did not say it was definite, he just said is more likely we basically can say no. However, because I was not seeking God at all, I gave into the temptations that were set before me and now of course I regret it and I am now trying to get back to where I was.
I say all of this to you because of the title of this blog. Nothing is more satisfying than Jesus Christ. Nothing can take His place and nothing ever will. You can spend all the money in the world, or sleep with as many people as you can, or eat til your heart's content but NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING can EVER take the place that Jesus is supposed to have in your life. I gave that place to other things and I go to worship like I did when I was actively seeking God and my heart broke for wanting to do anything that God had planned for me and I was willing to give anything for that. The last couple of weeks I have gone to worship and I have just been singing the songs. I knew before then that I was out of sorts but I truly knew then that I needed to change back to the person that loved and adored God above all else. I knew that my heart was not where it should be and so tonight I decided to share this with all my blogging friends that I made a mistake and now I am admitting it in order to make my life right again. So all in all, Jesus is the all-satisfying treasure, and trust me you want that in your life.
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