Living an empty life is one of the most miserable experiences. We can all drown ourselves with distractions, but when the music fades and you are left to yourself, there is no running away from our own emptiness. The world, especially the media, has taught us to pursue everything else, except real abiding fulfillment. To them getting emotionally high and pleasuring your senses is more important than real joy and peace. Now, we have emotionally unstable people who are addicted to pleasure. And they are all miserable.
So how do get the real deal?
How do we have a full and filled life?
Listen to our Holy Mother Mary!
Our Mother, who is full of grace, can teach us a thing or two how to have a life that is full.
And this is her words to us.
“Do whatever He (Jesus) tells you.” – John 2:5
Our Mother points us to her Son, the source of all fulfillments in this life and especially in the next.
In the Wedding at Cana, Jesus turned water into wine.
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. When he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” – John 2: 6-10
The key to a fulfilling life is full faith and full obedience to Christ.
When Jesus asked the servants to fill the jars with water, the water Jesus was pointing to was the water used for washing of feet. Just imagine what the servants must have thought. Putting this water to jars meant for drinking. And Jesus asked them to fill it to the brim.
And if that is not disturbing enough, Jesus asked the servants to give this water to their master. Just imagine the servants’ fear. They could lose their jobs because of Jesus.
But they believed and obeyed Jesus. And so a miracle happened.
If we want our boring life turned into a life of intoxicating joy and peace, Jesus can make that miracle happen. But He needs a faith that is filled to the brim. He wants our full obedience, even if He asks us to do something beyond our understanding. Even if it means risking ourselves. Just like what the servants did.
God’s grace is overflowing. But we can only receive what we accept. Give God a half filled jar, you get half filled fulfillment.
God is not stingy… we are.
True fulfillment comes from Christ alone, for He is our fulfillment. A fulfilled life comes from living in Christ and like Christ. And that is a life of faith and obedience to the Father.
To have Jesus is to be filled.
To live like Jesus is to find fullness.
Written by Daxx Bondoc
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