I always want more. I have realized that about myself. I want more fitness. I want more from my friends, more from my wife, more from myself, more from Jesus. I simply want more. I can’t settle for what is. I am insatiably unsatisfied. Now I know how self-absorbed that sounds and it would be truly narcissistic if I wanted more from everything and everyone around without expecting more from myself. God created us to want more, to never be satisfied here on earth because certain things are only satisfied in him and that will only happen fully when Jesusreturns.
Problems pop up when I look for “more” in the wrong places. When I don’t recognise what drives my desire for more and I actually expect to find all the “more” I want here and now. Without knowing the creator of the “more” I’m looking forward I will never even get close to finding “more” or I will just settle for “less” than “more” and think that’s normal.
The good news is that Jesus died so that it is actually possible for us to find the “more” we long for at the core of our being. Not the more that self-help gurus try to sell you or the more that Oprah talks about. But the real “more”. The “more” that is larger than my circumstances and larger than my bank account, my academic degrees or my “successes”. The “more” that goes to the core of my being. I want “more” and I’m ok with that.
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