All of us are looking for some kind of fulfillment to bring us peace. We need it to justify our existence. And we invest ourselves in to whatever we believe that would fulfill us.
What really fulfills us is God.
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” – St Augustine.
Jesus is our fulfillment. It is either you accept that or reject it. But the fact will not change. You need Him!
Only Jesus can satisfy our hunger for fulfillment, meaning and purpose. To reject Him will not take away that hunger, that longing. It will only be directed to something else.
The Catechism teaches us that we are religious beings by nature. It means that we will seek fulfillment, meaning and purpose religiously. We are all fanatics, only the object of our fanaticism changes. We have seen how people have religiously sought money, power, fame and sex. They have devoted all their waking hours pursuing it. They have offered their life to them. They are their gods.
We will always be fans of something or someone. So are you a Jesus fan or your own?
Choosing our god will direct our way of life. And it a direction towards Heaven or Hell.
All that God has created is good and is good for us. But once this “good” becomes god, it will now be the instrument of our destruction. Evil is always a distortion of good, evil cannot create. Satan can only distort what God has created.
Sex is good, but being a rapist isn’t. Money is good, but being a thief isn’t. Power is good, but being a tyrant isn’t.
Without God, all these goods become gods and get distorted in the process. For only God can tell us how these goods are to be used.
Fulfillment is one of our basic needs in life and for sanity. And you cannot escape that need.
To have everything and have not Jesus is to have nothing. For in the end all will be lost.
To have nothing and have Jesus is to have everything. He is God and everything is contained in Him.
By Daxx Bondoc
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