People aren’t enough, relationships aren’t enough, love (as the world experiences it) is not enough. Your career isn’t enough, money isn’t enough, ambition isn’t enough, passion isn’t enough, brilliance isn’t enough, achievement isn’t enough, potential, skill, talent, strength, intelligence is not enough. Your significant other, your sibling, your best friend, your soul mate, your pet, your self. Is not enough. All these things combined at the same time and place aren’t enough. This world is not enough and it never will be. Something that transcends how we feel yet causes us to taste of feelings that we can never know anywhere else is what we need. We need something that we can never get in this world. We need something that lies beyond our expectations because, lets be honest, we don’t know what we want or need half the time. There is a God that created you, gave you everything you have, gave you the capacity to enjoy the things of this world. He also came in the flesh to show you how to live and He came to die and to be raised up to give you what you need the most. He left room in you, a part of you that will know no satisfaction until you meet Him and recognize the need for Him, until you realize that what you really want, what you really need, is Him. He came to defeat your worst fears. He came to bring you love that is everything that you need, but not always what you want at first. It is perfectly honest, forgiving, merciful, appreciative, humbling, uplifting and beyond our understanding. It is perfect and that is why we will never fully understand it.

Let’s admit that we’re not perfect, let’s admit that if perfection was staring us in the face we wouldn’t know because we don’t have perfect eyes to see perfection. We don’t have perfect to hearts to feel perfection, we don’t have perfect minds to comprehend perfection, we don’t have perfect ears to hear the perfect message. The only way is to believe and understand it more and more as we grow closer to that perfection who is Jesus Christ. We need to be perfected and that is something only He can do. Let’s admit that our logic is a far cry from perfection and our answers lie in the realm that we might consider illogical. We don’t have control, what we do is at its best a spark in a giant stadium, that we cannot live up to the sense of morality we have in our hearts, we can’t live this life the way it’s supposed to be lived. Let’s admit that the things we look at and think about on a daily basis are jaded. Let’s admit that we want to be God, to be in control of things we never will be, that we think by doing this or that that we’ll be able to make our lives right or change our destiny. Let’s admit that we can’t. Let’s look at the cross. Let’s look to Jesus because we have to admit that nothing we’re doing is working. He promises if you give your life to Him and that you won’t have to worry about it anymore. Let’s look at the fact that there were hundreds of prophecies foretelling details about His life, death, and resurrection and that He fulfilled every one of them. Let’s look at all of His actions and see which ones weren’t done out of love. Let’s ask ourselves why we wouldn’t believe in the God of the bible. Perfect honesty is a hard thing to accept but we aren’t perfectly evil, so maybe there is a part of us that wants to believe but there is another that simply doesn’t want to believe that we need Him. Lets be honest, we really don’t know what we want or need half the time. Lets talk about "blind faith" as the world sees it. Do I understand why God does everything He does? No, but a good relationship is based on trust. To insist that we have to understand all the facts before considering God or that He has to meet some requirements is arrogance.

Let’s get past the idea that God is what you want Him to be that He has the standards you want Him to have. That idea completely reverses the dynamic of a relationship between a superior God and an inferior man. If the inferior is deciding for himself what the superior is than he has broken the relationship, in his heart he wants to be God. Let’s go back to the garden where the devil told Adam and Eve that they could be like God. They believed the lie and so do we. We can admit that God is perfect and we’re not, yes? Wouldn’t it then stand to reason that at some point we have to admit that what we want to think about God is going to be wrong? If God was one to be completely figured out by our mere minds than He wouldn’t be God. Ah but God tells us things about Himself, that He is good, that He loves us and that we’re lost and blind without Him. This is also why the bedrock of Christianity is repentance and surrender, because it has to be God who does the work in us to make us the people we’re supposed to be.

Christ came with the perfect message - that we can’t be perfect, that God desires you but the relationship has to be on His terms. He gave Himself up for us in a way that no one ever could, He also created us, so He hasn’t fallen short on His end. If my relationship with God isn’t where it should be and He is perfect then the issue is with me. We have to step outside ourselves "those who seek to save their life will lose it and those who seek to lose their life for my sake will save it." There is a part of you that insists there is nothing in this world for you, that it’s all for naught and there is a part of you that insists that there must be more so you seek to fill that need by latching onto things of this world. Both of those sides are right and wrong, There is something more to all of this and it isn’t in anything of this world. This world is a waste without God. Some people say, ‘what would happen if we all loved each other?’ maybe in a perfect world, right? There will be no perfect world and the only thing you can change is your own life and you need Jesus to do that. The only heart you have to give is your own and it’s precious to Him. Don’t take my word for it, approach God alone at night, talk to Him when you gaze at the night sky. Ask Him if this whole Jesus thing is a quack, that is what I did. Put it all aside and approach Him with a clean slate and I know He’ll answer, just make time to listen.
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." -Matthew 7:7-8

"Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you" - James 4:8