I have been wrestling since yesterday morning. Wrestling with who I am in Christ. Wrestling with fulfillment. Do you ever struggle with being fulfilled – with being happy?
Reading Thomas Merton is what started the wrestling yesterday. Here is what I read:
We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for which we were destined in our creation. If we love everything else but God, we contradict the image born in our very essence, and we cannot help being unhappy, because we are living a caricature of what we are meant to be.
I have been wrestling with fulfillment and how that is directly related to what or who I love and it excites me to think that by loving God, I am achieving a little of what God intended for me.
Fulfillment comes when we function as God intended – and a part of that is found in loving God. Sounds simple enough but it takes not loving other things on a daily basis – some of them may be good things but if they dilute your love for God then they are pulling you away from what you were created to be and do. Jesus said we can’t serve two masters – it’s true!
Love God today and live a fulfilled and happy life!
Clay in the Hands 
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