One of the fundamental questions about life is how to define and discover fulfillment. Outside the basic things of life, food, raiment, housing, health, security, liberty, society, relevance, relationships, information and communication which includes transportation, would we still have a need for fulfillment?
The quest for fulfillment is often obscured by the need for these things. The need for them doesn't often help us to discover how we need inner fulfillment. So long we are yet to meet these needs, we keep thinking our fulfillment will be when we meet the needs.
But they are actually insatiable, we'll always need more and more of these things instinctively because we think our fulfillment is in having them.
When we condition our basic needs through contentment, we can then see how much we need fulfilment.
Now, when we find fulfillment, we suddenly realise that we don't need an excess of many of the things listed above as we once thought when we hadn't found fulfilment.
Many of the items listed above define humanity's basic acceptable selfishness but personal fulfilment defines their limits beyond which they will become useless, wasteful, unacceptable and oppressive.
Take security for instance, one may get enough security to actually become paranoid about insecurity and would want to see conquering those seen as security threats as the thing to do to be assured of any security. Such a thing will happen when the sense of fulfillment hasn't been achieved. The sense of fulfillment takes away fear.
Desire for fulfillment is an indicator of life's higher calling. We were not made to have food, health, security and perpetuity, these are means to an end. We were not made just for the sake of existence, survival and death, if that's all, then what? Wouldn't it just be a waste? Life would mean nothing and hasting the process might just be alright because even if it lasts a million years for a person, it would still amount to nothing. Vanity upon vanity will equal vanity.
Fulfillment is found in Christ and in the purpose for which God has created us. Christ came to declare the truth of God to mankind just as each is sent to reveal something about God and about what He had done or prepared for us here. Christ was sent to make us see the possibilities ahead of us in the future and in the timeless and eternal realm of the supernatural in the kingdom of God.
The spiritual and the supernatural within man is what yearns for fulfillment and nothing in the physical can fill that void no matter how much money, materials we achieve or how we matter in society.
Are you looking for satisfaction and fulfillment? It isn't in satisfying our greed and lusts, neither is it in hurting others to get our desires, it is in filling up the supernatural void within us, the reason why Christ came to give us that water of life that satisfies eternally.
With that, contentment comes naturally, and fulfilment is birthed, even with only food and raiment. Without it, gaining the whole world won't suffice!
When the water of life has satisfied the thirst of the soul, love and light manifest on the outside. Aggression, oppression, deprivation of others, lack of compassion, sympathy and empathy will naturally fizzle out because there is peace within. Giving becomes easy because holding on to more than you need will be uncomfortable and incompatible with the inner satisfaction and fearlessness within.
It isn't religion, it is Christ. Fulfilment is in Christ Jesus, a satisfaction that has no roots in the physical but which only bears fruits for others to partake of in the natural.
Seek that satisfaction... Then others will be added.
Shalom, have a great week ahead!
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