This is not our home.
As our desires well up within and we cannot find the peace and fulfilment we so desperately search for the only conclusion is the this is not our home. That we were not made for the things we attach ourselves to in this world.
Jesus rarely answers the questions that are presented to him in the Bible. At least in the way we would see a question being answered, but that is because he was asked, what Henri Nouwen calls, "Questions from below." The things that consume our thoughts and time in this world do not have concern in the Truth of life. Jesus presents "answers from above." Bringing people back to Spirituality, back to eternity, back to home.
Home brings a sense of belonging. We are a part of something, a part of a family. A family that shares with us the things of our life; our interests, longings, pain, hope.
We want to belong and we want home because our humanity is conditioned to feel the severance of the fall. We get glimpses of connection here... Moments of God that make us desperate for more. Desperate to find home. It is difficult not to get caught up in the trivial of this life; yet, it is what keeps us farther from home and therefore from joy and contentment in the True.
We are all searching for home.
Every time we look to belong we look for home.
We just don't all realize that home is in Him.
You are right: I think we have to be aware of this and not run to things to fill us, when it's only God's love that truly can. We were made for more than this world has to offer us. Our yearnings, longings, cravings, and hopes are telling us something, there isn't enough love, peace, hope, friendship and intimacy on this earth to fully satisfy us. We will always want more.
ReplyDelete1st Corinthians verse 9 reminds us for now we only know in part. Everything is in part. One glorious day all of our longings will melt in the power of His gaze. All of our pain, every last ounce of our disappointment, and emptiness will vanish like the morning dew. On that day we will be fully known, understood, loved, filled and complete. :)