we all have an emptiness within us...
a longing that can't seem to be fulfilled...
man has always lived wanting more. he has always wanted to be more than what he is now. to be in front of where he is now.
it is the driving force that pushes him forward.
we all long for something more.
some seek to fulfill this by taking from others or by improving themselves.
but it remains the same. a vacuum. a blackhole that can not be filled with neither an effort to make or a struggle to take.
it is the very thing that defines our humanity.
and it is precisely our very human nature that prevents us from satisfying our deepest desire.
an ant, can hardly hope to become more than an ant by learning from other ants. from building with other ants. from training with other ants.
neither can it hope to become more by stealing from other ants, from killing other ants, from coveting what other ants have.
the only way an ant can be greater than what he is, is if something greater than it lifts it higher than what it is now.
should we be so proud as to think that we can satisfy our deepest desires by ourselves. If something is truly worth desiring or chasing after, should it not be that which we cannot hope to reach by ourselves but that which can only get recieved as a gift?
Ecclesiastes 6:2- God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.
Psalm 145:16- You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.
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