Look to Christ

For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed. —Romans 8:19

Few people in our world are content to live with unfulfilled longings. Everywhere we turn we are bombarded with advertising that urges us to demand that all of our longings be met—here and now!

The truth is that every human being has deep inner longs that will never be fulfilled this side of heaven. Loneliness, emptiness, and need are an inescapable part of life on this fallen planet. Indeed, Paul tells us the whole creation groans and cries out in travail, waiting for the ultimate, physical redemption of the children of God (Rom. 8:19–23).

Part of the purpose of those longings is to cause our hearts to become more detached from this earth and more attached to our true home in heaven. In addition, those longings help us learn that true security cannot be found in people, things, or places. In fact, to look to anything or anyone other than Christ for fulfillment is to be insecure, because everything other than Him is subject to change or can be taken away.

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Singled Out for Him: Embracing the gift, the blessings, and the challenges of singleness ©2023 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Scripture taken from The CSB