Too little or too much?

Is it that we are satisfied with too little or too much?


We are constantly going after more and more stuff: more to eat, more to drink, more to buy, more places to go. The list goes on and on and around again. This world produces some great things. Beautiful and satisfying trinkets that once excite us will fail to entertain us as time passes. But, there is always the next thing, which for a time takes the place of the previous object. Or perhaps, you truly value that one thing that you have had forever and no matter how many years go by, it is still a point of satisfaction- just knowing that your possession has attained more value with age is satisfying. It's there to remind you that it's yours, your possession! I have these things. I start to recognize which ones they are because I get that itch in my brain when someone inquires about them. It's the thought, why do they want to touch it? why should I let her borrow it? It's silly, really. And my possessions have small value monetarily, but I believe it is the nature of how I attained it that gives me a sense of pride and possessiveness. But, yes it is satisfying. No matter what level or method of satisfaction draws you to your possessions, it's problematic. This earthy place is fleeting. Scary to say, and even scarier to actually live by. Yet we draw large amounts daily of satisfaction from it...and for what?

I believe we are satisfied with too little. We are trading the simple, easily-attainable pleasures of this lovely, enticing world for eternity. E.T.E.R.N.I.T.Y.! Do we not know that it holds immeasurably more than earth?? Phil. 3:7 - "But, our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ."

I must be aware of the pursuit of fleeting satisfaction that can take it's place as a god. I do believe that the beauty and value we see in this life is as we see it, but it pales in comparison with what is to come-- and that it what I'm ultimately after.