A couple of night ago, I was sitting on the couch, watching Garfield (the cat of the family I nanny for) hunt for bugs. He would watch them fly and land on the wall. Then, he’d jump to try and catch it. Of course the bug was several feet above Garfield and there was no way that he could ever jump that high. Sometimes, he would lose the bug all together and see a shadow on the wall. He would chase after this shadow as if it was the real thing but came up empty every time. He spent most of his time either chasing something that was too high for him to reach or something that was not there at all. I found myself making fun of this cat chasing something that was not there. Then I had a little revelation that we as humans do this all the time. Cats are made to hunt, as it is in their instinct. In the same way, we are made for love and seek happiness in all kinds of places. I have found myself seeking after money, things, relationships and my looks for satisfaction. Every time I look to these places for satisfaction, I come up empty, even more thirsty for something. Every time I run to these things in my life…my craving gets a little bigger and it leads me down a path of destruction, getting tired and worn out. We were ultimately made to glorify God. This means to seek satisfaction in Him and Him alone. God is the only one that can fill this thirst and complete the hole in my heart. As Andrew Shearman says, “We were made to be Heaven on Earth and to be God with Skin on!”
I see this as a challenge to identify the shadows that are still in my life and to lay them down before the Lord. I need to humbly ask the Lord to remove them and allow His spirit to fill up my heart and ask Him to work through me! Praise God for using everything for His Glory!!
