Psalm 23~ The Song of a Passionate Heart

And so it comes to this: There is no earthly satisfaction. Marriage, family, achievement, money, celebrity, enlightenment, travel, collections, artistic creation, flamboyance, excess- nothing completes our joy. There is always that elusive something more. No lesson is more comprehensively taught in this world.

It is indeed strange that we go on "mad in pursuit," making the same mistake every day, trusting that life will someday reveal its long-concealed and exquisite plan, even though experience has taught us that no matter what we achieve or acquire, it does not contain the contentment we seek.

Why do we keep on seeking?

Simply put: because we have to. Our seeking is a stirring of absolute need, one that must be satisfied- our eternal need for God. Every desire, every aspiration, every hunger and thirst, every longing of our nature is nothing less than desire for God. We were born for His love and we cannot live without it. He is that "one thing" for which we have been looking all our lives. All that we desire is there, and infinitely more.

~David Roper